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Stuck With Me- The Neighbourhood Review

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Wow- The Neighbourhood are going into color. Whoever thought the group that named their mixtape #00000&#FFFFF(the computer codes for black and white) would use red and yellow, and within the space of less than a month, too? This is the second single for To Imagine, the follow up EP to September's Hard EP, and was preceded by Scary Love(I reviewed that too), an electronic hip hop blast that didn't match the indie rock grandiose of Hard but was good in its own way. This track is very laid back, with a sedate basic electronic background, resigned and slow vocal, and a fast but not driving drumbeat. A good keyboard/guitar(I can't tell which) riff come in later in, and the chorus has many electronic voices backing Jesse Rutherford, of various distortion levels. It has a very electronic, even New Wave feel, which is part of the reason it's so chill, and is widely prevalent today, but not in this form. The Neighbourhood keeps on changing, managing to stay almost the s

Weekly Playlist- 12/3

Winter is upon us (!!finally got the first snowfall of the year in NYC!!), and I made a playlist for the occasion  here . Also, remember to follow my TopPopRock playlist for weekly updates. Now for our regularly scheduled programming... T$RL- The Neighbourhood Emoticons- The Wombats The Brightside- Lil Peep Aviation- The Last Shadow Puppets Les Cactus- The Last Shadow Puppets Postpone- Catfish an the Bottlemen Soundcheck- Catfish and the Bottlemen Don't Cry, 2020- COIN Sparks- Coldplay