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Page C10 SQUEEZING POP FROM A BLUES STONE With pop sensibilities that seem to be steeped deeply in that Southern boogie, the Cold War Kids slammed their way through a recent set at Webster Hall in New York.
Swooning indie pop from a swooning indie couple... you've just been chopping onions, right?
Hence this nervy, piece of observational pop, from a band doing things from the ground up.
They were terrific, the new songs, believable as identity-bending pop from a fallen celebrity or as deeply felt parody or as chipper performance art.
Even at its most lo-fi, the largely four-track recordings evince a keen pop ear, even if this is pop from a series of distant eras.
Rather than critique the vacuity of 90s chart pop from a position of contempt though, they thread their criticisms through an honest, affectionate tribute.
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Evidence that they might came with Smith's misfield during Kamran Akmal's pop-from-a-bottle start to Pakistan's innings.
I once got a purple push-up pop from an ice cream truck in Harlem.
But isn't this generation-labelling just a load of pop psychology from a pop TV channel, and does it really matter anyway?
The 24-year-old Marissa Paternoster of the New Jersey trio Screaming Females created a force field around her guitar, playing a slurry of punk and power-pop from a time that just predates her physical life.
Which is to say: severe and symphonic New York drones, Saharan wedding music, Chicago R&B, Wassoulou call-and-response, brutal Sacramento art-rap, white Texas blues, rugged and syntactically deft Queens hip-hop, composery Brooklyn rock, London electro-pop from a 20-year-old, and the longest-serving regent of Anglophone popular music, who is now 70.
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