CD Feature/ TV On the Radio: "Dear Science"
Tobias“Halfway Home,” the jump-off track, is the sound of Billy Idol, Wire and Psychedelic Furs jamming after settling their differences over a couple of 40s; if you’re one of those lost 80s souls who loved the poor unloved Lords of the New Church, this is sweet revenge. Remember that this stuff is a genre Viewmaster, though, next flipping over to the Klaxons nu-rave market and gussying it up with some tasteful funk in “Crying” before flirting with Chemical Brothers lunkhead-rap in the buzzy, jazz-inflected “Dancing Choose.”
Hall & Oates get welded to Air for the faux-thoughtful “Stork and Owl,” heavy emphasis on the faux – this lot kid around with each other all the time, one of many things that belies their (unearned, if you ask me) rap as gloom-meisters.
By Eric Saeger
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