sometimes i really dont feel like working hard or "spending time" with a record in order for me to finally realize i like it. dont get me wrong, its a great feeling when a record finally clicks, but come on sometimes you just want shit laid out like a north avenue hooker. such is the case with boston's furvis' carpe carpet . a record so god damn enjoyable, that if for some reason you couldnt "get into it" we would definitely not be friends and there is something probably wrong with you. you like pavement, right? well [...]
THIS WEEK'S FINDS week of Aug. 6-12 "La Cage Appat" - Peppertree So how much fun is this song? We get, out of the gate, a wonderful, mysterious tension built by a question-answer style alternation between a gently strummed electric guitar and a chimey organ. This kicks open into a melodramatic series of now-the-guitar-is-chimey chords, then pulls back again into a restrained verse, in French, reinforcing the song's engaging sense of back-and-forth, of doing this then that, being here then there. See too how the musical accent is all off the [...]

You see these things floating around the web all the time -- some studio engineer "sneaks" out 15 seconds of some megastar's new hit, which then miraculously finds its way onto every fan board and blog on the internerd. At least pop's hype machine offers the illusion of subtlety, even if somewhere it's inked in as part of the marketing plan. The thing we loved about the Killers leaking a 40-second snippet of their new single was that the Stereogum link went right to Island/Def [...]