AeroLynx Music Blog

When I heard that Wonderful Wonderful was coming out this week, I thought that it was the full album, not just the title track. The Man, the first single for the forthcoming album, was a swaggering testosterone fueled pop rock blast, that suitably entered the top ten in all major US "rock" charts. After that, Run For Cover, another stadium rock song, this time with a more varied style, also charted, but lower.\ This newest song also continues in the arena-sized vein, but takes an unexpected turn. It's certainly a lot more experimental, with muscular guitars weaving in and out of an electronic haze that's driven by powerful drumbeats. The song gets so gigantic it exhausts itself, seeming to get so big that you can't tell of any difference in its rafter shaking power. The song seems to hang in the air and reverberate, while Brandon Flowers sings almost gospel seeming lyrics about an orphan listening to a shell. Overall, this song is okay but seems too experimental...

I never really liked Thirty Seconds To Mars. They were suggested as similar to Imagine Dragons, so I listened to them only to be met with overblown bombastic stadium rock garbage that could never decide on at least one instrument other than drums to have in more than one song in a row. The video for This Is War is absolutely idiotic, saying the video is about peace and then showing a marine screaming and firing random bursts(at least he wasn't spinning in circles). Despite all this, Beautiful Lie is an actual good song, with its focus mainly on guitar.                                                                Background aside, Walk On Water itself is okay. It's still overblown, and at least mixes swaggering verses with the gigantic gospel choir aided chorus that has nothing to do with the song's supposed call for political...

My favorite song by Gorillaz is Saturnz Barz, and this remix makes it even better. There. I just summarized my review in less than a second of reading, if you don't want read any further, but you should because I'll tell you why. The reason I like the original song is because it show Gorillaz at their best- edgy electropop with a guest appearance but still a little bit of Damon Albarn singing through his melancholy filter about some problem he has. This remix makes the song more distorted and yet more clean and dancey, speeding everything up except when Popcaan says "No, All My Life", which gives the song better emphasis and depth. It also adds Caribbean rappers that go in and out with the original music just like my favorite local radio station, 107.5 Flava Station. And Damon Albarn even sounds a bit happy, singing about how he dances with only holographs for company. Overall, the song is a lot more fun, and even Damon Albarn lamenting about his loss can't chan...

I've decided to start a new feature, the weekly playlist. At the end of every week(I hope), I'll post what I've been listening to the most that week, starting today. I'll also post an archive of past playlists along with the current one. Weekly Playlist- Week of 8/27 1- Nowhere By Sir Sly 2- Silvertongue By Young The Giant 3- Cough Syrup By Young The Giant 4- Feel Good Inc. By Gorillaz 5- Amsterdam By Imagine Dragons 6- Miracle Mile By Cold War Kids 7- Always In My Head By Coldplay 8- True Love By Coldplay You may notice that I'm listening to Young The Giant a lot, because their music is awesome and also because I'm going to one of their concerts next month, which I may write an article on.