Wednesday, March 4th, 2015

Asaf Avidan – Over My Head

But where’s the Wankelmut remix?


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Micha Cavaseno: Do you think Mark Ronson regrets how he helped usher in this annoying return to ’50s-’60s retro stuff? I mean, yes, he’s still doing it, but at least he’s not fixated on the Winehouse logistics. This arrangement would make a great ballad, and this is a fine song. But this is music for people who want girlfriends who look like Bettie Page and genuinely want to do sock-hops. People who apparently hate the current, and should refuse to get swept away like some rusty soda can from 1956 that is just labeled “POP” and has none of the fizz.
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Katherine St Asaph: Well, as retro goes, it’s a cut above Meghan Trainor.
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Ian Mathers: Vocally, does this sound like some weird collision between Dylan and Winehouse to anyone else? If only there were literally anything else interesting about it.
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Anthony Easton: It’s slight and formal, almost musty, but not quite nostalgic. There is something interesting in how international it sounds, and something interesting in how it nudges towards a feminine torch song quality, and maybe something in how it is a tiny bit like a smoky early Dylan. I don’t mind listening to it, but it doesn’t stay with you.
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Brad Shoup: Androgynous necromancy swooning to itself: every downstroke is just so, and each arpeggio is just kinda there.
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Patrick St. Michel: Nice enough voice, and the song is pleasant enough, but that’s about it, pleasant background music while doing something else.
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Scott Mildenhall: It’s that scene in the movie where the protagonist, finally composed, returns home. The gloom that once encumbered them has long dissolved, and as the rain falls selective memory casts the place as one only of worn beauty, a withering crystal that cannot be held, only longed for. The saudade is palpable, but critics complain that the segment was spoiled by “grating yawps”.
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