Rih Rih and her ex harmonize over a cool melody that makes you dance to what is essentially a middle-finger-to-the-world hook.
The Berlin-via-San Francisco producer filled each with a dreamy, pulsating remembrance of the her upbringing in Arizona, and while it's quite hard to chose one over the other, "2000 Species of Cacti" wins the photo-finish with the dry heat of its minimal beat and deceptively cool melody.
Sometimes Mr. Savage favors the declamatory style favored by James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem, too cool for melody.
Then again when you have a collection of hits (big and small) like his, maybe it doesn't matter; give him a propulsive beat, and he'll add a cool, affectless melody you'll be singing for days.
"Jupiter Jazz" has a great, uplifting vibe with a cool acid melody.
With the day-job-blues dues-paying and finger-bleeding behind them, the band is well on its way to the good stuff with their haircut-cool swaggering melodies.
(Chinen) Freddy Cole Quartet (Friday and Saturday) As a singer and a pianist, Freddy Cole exudes a gallant but unfussy brand of cool: he's a melody man, allergic to undue embellishment, and his maturity manifests as understatement.
(Chinen) Freddy Cole Quartet (Tuesday through Dec. 22) As a singer and a pianist, Freddy Cole exudes a gallant but unfussy brand of cool: he's a melody man, allergic to undue embellishment, and his maturity manifests as understatement.
ShapeShifter Lab, 18 Whitwell Place, Park Slope, Brooklyn, shapeshifterlab.com; $15. (Chinen) Freddy Cole Quartet (Saturday) As a singer and a pianist, Freddy Cole exudes a gallant but unfussy brand of cool: he's a melody man, allergic to undue embellishment, and his maturity manifests as understatement.
Like our song, "My Way," Ravé originally wrote it as a poem and when I read it, I thought the prose and message were so cool that a vocal melody naturally came to mind.
Doesn't that out-of-touch crone know that today it's totally cool to swipe a melody, tell people the original artist gave you their blessing, and pocket a couple mil' off it?
