Maitland McDonagh of TV Guide magazine stated that Cyrus' return after the Brothers was an up-beat "vague rocker-chick grab".
On the title track, whose minimalist clicks and sparse, elastic beats vaguely resemble modern dancehall, she sings, "I know what people say about you, they say the same about me," a nod to the reputation she has garnered.
But we have fired up many park grills, in a variety of locations, and found that it is hard to beat the vaguely Thoreau-like thrill of cooking with an acre of elbow room).
Lead track Black Leather married post-punk guitars with a furious disco beat, a raw, vaguely Marc Bolan-inspired vocal, lyrical interpolations from both Iggy Pop's Sister Midnight and KC and the Sunshine Band's That's The Way (I Like It) and homoerotic lyrics: "I do big muscle boys on motorbikes … I like a filthy, greasy cock".
When I drive 95, I ease the pain with audio books, which beat contemplating the vaguely offensive highway signs ("Pedro sez...".) marking the monotonous miles to South of the Border, the tacky roadside attraction at the North Carolina-South Carolina line.
While walking down the alleys of the old city, passing a number of touristic gift shops, I heard a vague Tarantella beat that led me straight to Casa del peppe, a sleazy joint where Monti Fiori were playing their weekly set.
Though the strains at 5 20 are indeed reminiscent of Coldplay's song, they are short-lived – and take place over a vaguely Latin beat, played with, er, woodblocks.
Jones and her collaborators Jesse Harris and Lee Alexander carried out a clever vision, beating acts like Nouvelle Vague to the punch by several years: they collected standards by Hank Williams and Hoagy Carmichael, wrote new songs that bridged the gaps between the classics, and then recorded the results in a lounge-music style, almost as if they were covering themselves.
Whereas Cypress Hill are best known for stoned, jazzy tracks such as Hits from da Bong and Insane in the Brain, the first fruit of this collaboration – Roll It Light It – is full of Rusko's chugging cyborg beats and a vaguely wobbling bass line.
Who did what remains a mystery, but Dollar's role was integral, not least because he shaped the group's often vague ideas – samples, beats, raps – into something cohesive and often dramatic.
