Blog: the bathysphere

Cold War Kids Loyalty to Loyalty Downtown, 2008 O bscure philosophy reference aside, I can only imagine Loyalty to Loyalty employs tautology to emphasize the point. But laudable though loyalty may be, it means musical socialism here, and the result is nothing worth highlighting. Sunny pop delivered with a scowl is a dinosaur before its fifth birthday, but Cold War Kids can't shake the stale identity. They're thinking about new directions, but the funk isn't sexy enough, the blues lacks soul and the clave [...]