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July 16th, 2004 1:56pm


I Call Your #, I Can’t Get Through

Cut Copy “Saturdays” – Sometimes I wish that I had a more technical understanding of music theory, if just so that I didn’t have to make a fool of myself by describing the way certain types of chord progressions sound by using vague references like “80s chords.” This song is loaded with “80s chords,” which is to say that it sounds like early Madonna, or maybe a bit like Prince. This is not accidental; it is clearly the effect that these guys are going for – danceable, light, airy, and as comfortable as the womb for its target audience. The vocals are minimal and seem to be there primarily as a formality, since the focus is on the beat, keyboard chords, and filters, owing more to straight-up dance music than the crossover dance pop that it references. (Click here to buy it from Amazon.)

Cornershop “Valeurs Personelles” – As far as I know, this is the first new Cornershop tune since Hand Cream For A Generation was released and mostly slept on back in 2002. This is taken from The New Mixes, Volume 1, a compilation of remixes of material from the Bill Cosby/Quincy Jones jam sessions which yielded “Hikky-Burr.” This isn’t a typical Cornershop pop song with vocals by Tjinder Singh, but it’s a rather nice retro funk number with spoken word vocals by a French woman, presumably sampled from another source. (Click here to buy it from Amazon.)

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