| Various Artists / Look Directly Into The Sun: China Pop 2007 |
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| Album: | Look Directly Into The Sun: China Pop 2007 | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Various Artists | Added: | Dec 2007 | |
| Label: | Bloodshot Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2008-01-06 | Pull Date: | 2008-03-10 |
| Week Ending: | Mar 2 | Feb 10 | Jan 27 | Jan 20 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Mar 01, 2008: | New World Disorder Chian | 4. | Jan 19, 2008: | New World Disorder Chian | |
| 2. | Feb 09, 2008: | New World Disorder Jaijung | 5. | Jan 16, 2008: | Radio Show Shanghai | |
| 3. | Jan 23, 2008: | Brownian Motion Manque Fight Your Apathy | 6. | Jan 15, 2008: | The Wonder Girls of Canada Mario And Peaches, Jaijung |
| Album Review |
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| Sadie O. Reviewed 2008-01-08 | ||
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[coll]: Look Directly into the Sun Reviewed by Sadie O., 12/18/07 Underground punk/rock/pop from China. The underground rock scene in Beijing in 2006 really was a dead ringer for the underground punk/powerpop/punk punk scenes in London and New York (and out here – but no one in the major press was listening) in the late 70’s and early 80’s. Mostly very raw, sometimes quite experimental – I think a lot of you will love a lot of this. I also think your tastes will be different from mine, so please give it all a listen. FCC – pretty definite on track 18, possibly on 7 and 15. I like 15 best… 1. 3:25 **Power pop with a bit of syncopation, rather world-weary vocals. 2. 3:19 ***loud electronic riddim with interesting tune and scratching, fast hip hop vocals in Chinese. 3. 2:37 ***hyper girl-group pop, almost distinguishable lyrics in English. Moments of pretty serious punk, too. 4. 2:42 **basic and sometimes dischordant post-punk with terribly angst-ridden vocals in Chinese. 5. 4:27 **static, 4/4 beat and single tones, a bit of urban desolation in the vocals, occasional moments of punk. Reminds me of a lot of underground bands who didn’t fit into either “punk” or “New Wave” in the late 70’s. 6. 3:59 **club sounds intro, 4/4 beat, quavery guitar, turns punky after 40 seconds, muffled vocals in indistinguishable English. Ends with a few seconds of applause. 7. 3:44 FCC?? **midtempo 4/4 and loud fuzzy guitars, screamed vocals in English. May be an FCC – hard to tell. Nice bass work in mid-song. 8. 4:24 **melancholy sound, strummed guitars and floaty female vocals. Goes utterly punk after a bit over a minute, then back. Eventually it’s all-out war… 9. 4:45 ***girl punk, but definitely of the underground variety, odd repeated vocals, mostly yelled. Lots of dynamic changes and quite a few bits of quite odd vocals. Ends with applause. 10. 5:41 *simple guitar (and hiss) intro, slowly adds more guitars and electronics until you’ve got a lot of noise. Drums come in halfway through. No vocals, mostly noise to me… 11. 3:27 **soft intro, then loud post-punk with lots of high-hat, then rather sweet music with adenoidal and echo-laden vocals in Chinese. Almost like early U2, I have to say… 12. 2:04 ***punk at its most obnoxious – yay! Dischordant, screamy, nasty – it’s got the works! 13. 2:39 **fast punk with distorted vocals – think Stiff Little Fingers. 14. 4:12 ***downtempo bass-heavy post punk, female vocals – a bit like early Blondie but less cute (and the chick can’t really sing, but what the hell…) 15. 3:47 FCC?? ****emotional intro, then great downtempo garage rock/punk with strong vocals in Chinese. He might say “shit” at one point? Hope not – this is the poop! 16. 5:42 ***drums and chimes, and throat singing! Yippee! Rather like underground metal, actually, once the guitars start. There’s even some violin. Gnarly like Gwar. 17. 4:44 **jangly power pop, but the urban NYC heroin-inflected kind. Ends with noise. 18. 1:58 FCC: Pretty sure she says “bullshit” ***3-chord girl group ska-punk. Too bad it’s so short! | ||
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