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Achieving musical alchemy, Morning Teleportation successfully combine more genres than I can count, creating fabulous journeys of song. They have taken the rulebook of song writing and thrown it out the window. They’re doing things their way.

Somewhere between The Beach Boys and The Cure falls “Pretty In Decadence” the first single from the French Films debut album “Imaginary Future.” If anything “Pretty In Decadence” has an overall feeling similar to what Robert Smith would have given off if he weren’t constantly obsessing over breaking up with who he’s with or wanting [...]

  I was not a huge fan of “Tentacles”, Crystal Antlers‘ debut album: lacking the variety of their tour mates Les Savy Fav’s better albums, which soften their hard edged rock with indie-anthems like “The Year Before The Year 2000″ that could probably slip almost unnoticed onto a Hives album, it was a tiring listen. [...]

  If The Cure did electro-pop, they might end up sounding something like Letting Up Despite Great Faults. Maybe Robert Smith could get a haircut while he was at it, although I guess that would just be a nicety. Also, I heard that that’s where he gets his power. He’s like a really miserable, weedy [...]

“Like The Smashing Pumpkins, when they were good.” So Lightouts describe themselves. I’ve heard of less ambitious introductions – there is such a thing as setting yourself up for a fall. How many members did The Smashing Pumpkins have, again? Like, four plus several extras? And we’re talking about the early years, with Billy Corgan [...]