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FAB NEW BRIT ROCK
Here’s the coolest new rock CD that’s crossed my desk in the last few weeks:
The Cinematics’ “A Strange Education.”
Some bands are perfectly named, their monikers seeming to perfectly reflect the mood, attitude and feeling of the music.
Put the Cinematics in that category; these young Scottish post-post-post-punks do indeed write with dramatic flair and dark-tinged scenic imagery, spinning bleak, wintery tales of lovesick romanticism with a New-Wavey energy that reminds one not every song back in the ‘80s stunk.
We expect to hear more from this exceptionally talented quartet.
Grade: A-
iPod picks: Race to the City, Strange Education
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By spiderjohn
February 23, 2007 8:59 AM | Link to this
Forget the Brits and the local rockers, as they all take a back seat to the horttest new band on the planet, Chris Thile’s Tensions Mt.Boys. They are featured on the new cd “How to Grow a Woman From the Ground Up”, and are currently touring under the moniker, Chris Thile’s How to Form a Band. This outfit just played a jaw-dropping show at MU-H’s Parrish Auditorium Tuesday night, leaving the crowd knowing they had just experienced a set FAR beyond the ordinary. After being stifled within the Nickle Creek format, Chris Thile is now poised to join the ranks of Bela Fleck and Mark O’Connor as the standard bearers for cross-over acoustic music. There is no limit to where this combo can take their music, and I look forward to attending their March 17th Carnegie Hall performance. The new cd is outstanding, though just a glimpse of the ground-breaking possibilities of this unit.