Puzzle

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艺人: Tahiti 80
语种: 英语
厂牌: Minty Fresh
发行时间: 2000年06月06日
专辑类别: 录音室专辑

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by Dean Carlson

When does admiration become just a pose? Everyone is probably familiar with whiny American teenagers trying to sound like cockney punks, Tokyo-based musicians trying to sound like hip-hop &gangstas,& and nearly every British guitar band of the '90s trying to sound like The Stone Roses; so here with Puzzle, France's Tahiti 80 seems so enamoured with their musical idols that they can barely voice a personal touch of their own. Yes, the band attempts a mix of twee pop and the British Invasion. Which might look good on paper. Yet time and time again, they only appear to avoid rising above such a mathematical formula and resort to sounding like the Who without any balls. The problem might simply lie in their adulation of such bands. &Easy Way Out& is a bouncy guitar pop song that clearly evokes the more lighthearted side of bands like the Small Faces or Blur. &Made First (Never Forget)& even sounds like I Should Coco-era Supergrass but without the visceral guts keeping its simplicity interesting. However, the most blunt ode to Tahiti 80's idols is obviously &Mr. Davies.& Not only does it name-check the core of the Kinks, it religiously follows the third-person characterization that Ray Davies stenciled out without a flinch. It all just sounds -- redundant. Thankfully, there are moments of true effectiveness. There's a rhythmic psychedelia in songs like &Revolution 80& and a true Fountains of Wayne-like jubilation in other songs like &Hey Joe.& It's just too bad that these moments are few and far between. Case in point: the dreadful title track. It sounds like a Metallica song taken in a fluttery, birds-chirping mindset. Yikes. Overall, though, where Tahiti 80 and most nostalgic Brit-pop bands seem to bow down to the same British Invasion pulpit, Tahiti 80 chooses to infect it all with more of the twee indie sides of bands like Belle and Sebastian than the perceptive hooks of bands like Creation or the Kinks. Puzzle is merely an album that is half-there, half-not. Which proves that while imitation might be the sincerest form of flattery, it might be wise for Tahiti 80 to start insulting the crap out their idols.

Puzzle

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