Girl Talkby Donny Kutzbach |
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You don’t even need to get to the end of the first track of Night Ripper (Illegal Art), the third full-length from Pittsburgh’s Gregg Gillis, a.k.a. Girl Talk, to get a smile of recognition and likely your head a-bobbing. Listen just a bit and hear Slim Thug and Ying Yang Twins dropping their well known, club-tried rhymes to snatches of prog rock from Genesis, Oasis’ psychedelic Britpop and Boredoms’ noise cacophony dipping in and out. This is just the tip the iceberg. |
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Was the First Cut the Deepest?: Clap Your Hands Say Yeahby Joe Doherty |
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There is something tragically poetic about pop artists who enter the public’s field of vision on the shoulders of a universally well received record. The enormous shadow cast by their inaugural work can loom grimly over even the most ambitious followup. |