Album Review:French Horn Rebellion - The Infinite Music of French Horn Rebellion

French Horn Rebellion just released their new LP The Infinite Music of French Horn Rebellion, yet it's almost tangible that this entire album and the conceptually clever videos will be used as a tool to bed women who might fall for kitsch and not well-executed albums such as those by Goldfrapp, Yelle, or The Strokes.    There is one moment amongst fourteen tracks that shows some honesty, which is "Brasilia Girl", though it sounds like it may have been pulled from The Faint songbook.    The rest of the album is an absolutely pretentious exercise in following trends, the funny Andy Samberg, and not your heart.    FHR are opening for the fantastic Yelle on her spring 2011 North American tour.

French Horn Rebellion - Broken Heart



French Horn Rebellion - Brasilia Girl



French Horn Rebellion - Up All Night

Album Review:The Strokes-Angles

When The Strokes' first album "Is This It" was released with its promotional tsunami, I intentionally avoided it for several months.    After the daily flow of attention the album received had comfortably settled into the horizon, I patiently listened and realized that this album would soon become my essential tool to bring about the warmer days of summer.    On The Stroke's latest "Angles", the reverberating guitars on the opener Machu Picchu honour 10CC's "Dreadlock Holiday" and pay respect for Strange Advance on "Games" and The Strokes' "Gratisfaction" would have sounded fantazmic snuggled anywhere inside the Billy Joel album "Glass Houses".    On closer inspection of The Strokes' latest platter, these gentlemen of leisure have condensed a complete understanding of many decades of pop music and deftly manipulated the elements toward another refreshing evolution for modern pop music.    I think that I might buy the vinyl.

The Strokes-Machu Picchu

The Strokes-Taken for a Fool

The Strokes-Games

The Strokes-Gratisfaction