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Music, 2008 albums
the notwist - the devil, you + me (2008)
By drunkie mcdramaqueen, April 7th, 2008 | RSS feed | Digg this story | Make del.icio.us

The Notwist
The Devil, You + Me
[City Slang/May???]

It has been 6 years since The Notwist released their stunning masterpiece “Neon Golden”, so…needless to say I was ttly stoked to give this record a listen when it leaked last month. To my chagrin, though, the band’s focus seems to have moved much closer toward the sleepy, dream-inducing lap-pop that has previously acted only as meandering segues between brilliance. Though the tracks to be found here are nothing too stylistically different than some of the softer moments from “Neon Golden”, an entire record of it is somewhat tedious and — dare I say, boring. With the exception of the album’s opener, there are hardly any energetic moments here — certainly nothing in the same spectrum of amazingness as “Pilot”, and that is unfortunate :(

High point: Good Lies

RIYL: Styrofoam, Lali Puna, Ms. John Soda, Dntel

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One Response to “the notwist - the devil, you + me (2008)”

» By Daniel, April 9th, 2008 at 4:15 am

u got a point.!