Thursday, February 28, 2013

Autre Ne Veut's Anxiety

Another review up today at Blurt. I really mostly liked the single, "Counting."

AUTRE NE VEUT
Anxiety
(Software/Mexican Summer)

Autre Ne Veut splices the flowery falsettos, the slinky backbeats of classic R&B with the noisy abstractions of indie electronica. The proprietor, Arthur Ashin, captures the style, but not the substance of 1970s icons like Curtis Mayfield and Prince, executing baroque runs and flourishes in flawless whistle range. His stretches sturdy words like "baby" and "lives" into polysyllabic arias, insinuating sexual abandon while mouthing lines that don't quite scan.

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