GOSSIP
A Joyful NoiseColumbia, 2012This is not the first time indie artists have fallen for his cred-pop charms.Let's see how that's worked out so far…New Order+Xenomania=(Sessions cancelled after the band "realized they were not a pop band.")Franz Ferdinand+Xenomania=(Sessions cancelled after the band decided "We are not a pop group.")Gossip+Him Again=A Joyful Noise(No sessions cancelled because no one involved managed to work out that Gossip isn't a pop band.)Beth and Brian have gone for that ABBA-circa-79 look: lots of synths draped over everything like cream-colored chaise longues, Beth reclining and pouring melancholy like Marie Rose sauce onto a prawn cocktail of langour. It sounds pretty seductive, reading it back, but I am quite hungry as I write this. Sad to say that, bar the primally-screamed comet of joy that is "Melody Emergency," most of A Joyful Noise never quite gets to the point. Instead, it mopes around, a little lost, a little too arch in its stylization, trying to ooze pop energy without ever sounding the only way pop can ever sound if it is to succeed: effortless.
A Joyful NoiseColumbia, 2012
Favorite:
"Melody Emergency"
Flavors:
Marie Rose cocktail sauce, flat prosecco
- Melody Emergency
- Perfect World
- Get A Job
- Move In The Right Direction
- Casualties Of War
- Into The Wild
- Get Lost
- Involved
- Horns
- I Won't Play
- Love In A Foreign Place
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