September 10th, 2003 12:14pm
Something To Remember, Something To Forget
Quarks “I Walk” – I can’t tell you too much about Quarks. This is mostly because virtually everything written about them online is in German, and when I translate the pages, it always comes out to awkward prose that doesn’t make much sense.
For example:
The result sounds professional to in any case. German and English-language Songs with cleanly arranged sound of electronics. When first hearing one feels immediately automatically reminded of 2raumwohnung . But the quarks have already their own style from in-usual sounds without many Schnoerkel, clear woman voices and sensitively direct texts.
Most Songs of the album of Trigger Me Happy are individually belonged very interesting and captivatingly for itself. But one hears the album in Gaenze is noticeable one behind the other fast that all Songs on three or four repetitive variants constructs. That lets the attention shrink naturally fast and one nevertheless more or less is in such a way sprinkled. In order to stress it again, the kind of the individual Songs, which reach in-usual Beats from pieces also up to gentle Balladen, please me already very well – nevertheless to which am I to sound myself from everyone again the second and third Aufguss?
The quarks will surely have a meaning for the German electronics music also in the future. But to it more experiments and innovations will have to belong. It does not hand evenly to have and produce these in often cloned variants completely few samples.
Right. I get the gist of it, I guess, but it’s not very helpful. As you may have gleaned from this excerpt, they are just a very good German electro-pop group. The record is very solid, I had some difficulty choosing which song to post here – I nearly went for the ballad “How Can You Say You Love Me?,” but “I Walk” is the single and probably the most immediately likeable song from the LP. (Thank to K for the tip!)
Mandy Moore “One Way Or Another” – This is from her upcoming Coverage album. You’d think it would just be lame karaoke, but it’s actually really exciting and super pop, and rocks harder than most every other faux-new wave rock band currently going. It’s very cute in how it’s going for breathy-sexy but ends up kinda ironic-spunky instead, which is about exactly right. For a person Mandy’s age (or my age, for that matter) this is just another radio song that you might remember from being a kid, and then you grow up a bit and notice that the lyrics are suddenly relevant to you, giving it a new life. This recording sort of captures that rush of enjoying the type of song a little kid would like (and for whom the lyrics may as well be about hide-and-seek), and having that kind of ‘ah-ha!’ moment where you get the song on an adult level. To put things over the top, just as it starts, you hear the drummer say “1, 2, c’mon Mandy!” How can you not love that?
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