| Leo, Ted And The Pharmacists / Brutalist Bricks, The |
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| Album: | Brutalist Bricks, The | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Leo, Ted And The Pharmacists | Added: | Mar 2010 | |
| Label: | Matador Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2010-04-11 | Pull Date: | 2010-06-13 |
| Week Ending: | Jun 13 | Jun 6 | May 30 | May 23 | May 16 | May 9 | May 2 | Apr 25 |
| Airplays: | 4 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Oct 23, 2021: | suzi_emanuele-Manbrck_DEMO Bottled In Cork | 4. | Jul 16, 2010: | Time Traveler (Best Indie/Pop 1st Half 2010) The Mighty Sparrow | |
| 2. | Jan 13, 2011: | Daydream Disaster Bartolomeo And The Buzzing Of Bees | 5. | Jun 28, 2010: | Palo Alto Pop Overthrow - Quarterly Retrospective One Polaroid A Day | |
| 3. | Oct 05, 2010: | Daydream Disaster Tuberculoids Arrive In Hop | 6. | Jun 12, 2010: | the denial hour Woke Up Near Chelsea |
| Album Review |
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| Andy S Reviewed 2010-04-04 | ||
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Vigorous, hyper-intelligent punk/pop/rock from the veteran indie-rocker and his crew. More of a separation between the punk numbers and the pop rather than the blend we've seen on his earlier stuff, but he's adept at both. A few dud tracks, but they really go at it on the feistier ones. My picks: 9, 8, 1. FCC: 5 –Andy **1 - Aggressive pop with Brit-punk strained vocals; two false endings at -0:33 2 - Dark and frustrated with murky guitars; striking, sparse post-choruses 3 - FCC: "fucked"; mid-tempo pop-rock, with Dirty-Projectors-quirky vocals 4 - Grabbing rock number with summery acoustic guitar *5 - FCC: "shit"; fun punk romp that plays with the restraint switch *6 - Kind of cheesy pop song pushed through a punk lens, to interesting effect; sappy hook repeated ad nauseam at the end *7 - Classic rock gets the same cynical punk treatment, again effectively **8 - Pure, unapologetic pop (hand-claps and all) in a funkily cool RHCP mode; Ted checks out the bottom of his range for once **9 - Well-executed Ramones-style upbeat punk-rock 10 - Catchy, paced, optimistic rock number 11 - Grizzly-Bear-meets-Nick-Drake washed-out acoustic folkiness; totally weird coming from Leo, but nice; ~20 seconds of crickets at the end 12 - Frantic punk-pop with grabbing vocals and eclectic instrumentals; fades out around -1:00 and starts back up *13 - Tempered rock with striking dynamic range; Green-Day-style vocal hooks, big guitar and simple solo | ||
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