by Rick Anderson The Cincinnati-based quartet Wussy continue to make a strangely attractive racket on their third album. Still co-led by singer/songwriters Chuck Cleaver and Lisa Walker, the band often sounds like it's trying for roots rock and missing -- not that there's anything wrong with that. "Gone Missing" evokes the Primitives with its tuneful but rough-edged guitar jangle; "Dreadful Sorry" is constructed like a country weeper with bipolar disorder, what with its aggressively rockish guitar draped all over the slide guitar and mandolin. Both "This Will Not End Well" and "Death by Misadventure" feature basslines that owe royalties to R.E.M.'s Mike Mills -- though it's doubtful that he (or anyone else) would want to claim credit for the line "It's kindergarten, and you're jumping on a dead and bloated horse." This all … Read more
类别 | 录音室专辑 |
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风格 | pop alternative |
Alias | wussy |
Extra | wussy |
Name | wussy |
原始名称 | Wussy |
发行时间 | 2009-05-12 |
名称 | wussy |
歌手 | wussy |
语言 | 英语 |