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Hard-Fi - Once Upon A Time In The West (Atlantic): Not all rock music has to be serious. Our first thought was that this album was slickly overproduced to the point where it was impossible to be objective. But this was followed by the notion that it would sound great in the car. Trying again there, we found an album that jumps out of the speakers with beats pilfered from 90's Manchester bands, guitars straight out of Combat Rock, and polished vocals affecting anger with everyday England. Highlights include "I Shall Overcome," which features lyrical bites straight out of The Jam's "A Town Called Malice," the ballad-ish "Watch Me Fall Apart," and an stadium anthem called "Television" featuring a hugely OTT 'hallelujah' chorus The Killers were totally, totally meaning to write. This album does take itself a bit too seriously at times, but it's really designed to be heard on the radio and at the pub. And given that American rock radio plays Daughtry and Nickelback all the time, we'd much rather hear this or Franz Ferdinand any day.
[Hard-Fi MySpace]
[Video: "Can't Get Along Without You"]
[Video: "Suburban Knights"]
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Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - 100 Days, 100 Nights (Daptone): The back story is this: Sharon Jones was long championed by NY-area soul fans and bloggers such as BrooklynVegan and OneLouder, but remained a cult item until producer Mark Ronson commissioned the band (sans Ms. Jones) to record the Back To Black album with one Amy Winehouse. Now the Dap-Kings are back with Jones, and the resulting work should bring them all wider acclaim. 100 Days, 100 Nights shines with the sweat of a Stax record, the bass lines of a Tarantino film soundtrack, and the lyrical content of a Bill Withers LP. This classic retro-soul disc is a gritty, funky, and thoroughly enjoyable mix of both the soul-pop sounds that everyone gets excited about when Winehouse or Lauryn Hill channel them and the harder-edged soul sounds that the Antone's die-hards collect. We particularly love the funk stomp of "Nobody's Baby" and the Motown diversion "Tell Me." Highly recommended.
[Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings MySpace]
[Video: "Let Them Knock"]
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