6/30/2023 0 Comments Conspire band![]() Somewhere under the barrage of staccato guitar stabs and fist-pumping shouts is an assured, composed album. ![]() With that urgency already implicit, though, when Meligrove Band take a page from the Exploding Hearts and give the songs a little slack they really take off. Occasionally the “garage” overwhelms the “rock,” as on the chorus of “Our Love Will Make the World Go Around” and the guitar showboating of the finale of “Ages and Stages,” but for the most part it works as an urgency-implying stylistical device. Ironically, Meligrove Band bring the songs in spades, but it’s the desperate, emo-leaning over-intensity that is the album’s weakness.Īlong with the “the” prefacing its name, Meligrove Band has abandoned the retro rock sensibilities of 2002’s Let It Grow and headed into the garage for this record, grand piano and Strokes LPs in tow. In the recent crop of forthright indie-poppers (Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, Field Music, even the New Pornographers), the importance of being earnest is starting to take a backseat to the music itself with so many seemingly authentic voices to choose from, you may as well go with the one with the best arrangements. ![]() Much like Meligrove Band’s Planets Conspire. Then I decided conducting a review in mock internet slang, theoretically as humorous as that may have been, would have been really aggravating. ZendaveL05: Man, I wish I’d saved this whole convo, I could’ve totally just used it as the review. The first draft of this review opened with a very quaint AIM conversation that went something like:
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