The Cars
Move Like This
Hear Music (2011)
I'd like to take a moment to quote Ric Ocasek, circa 1997, on the subject of The Cars reuniting at some point in the future:"I'm saying never, and you can count on that."I guess that makes him the Brett Favre of rock music, because one spinoff project and 23 years after their breakup, here I sit, holding a copy of 2011's reunion album, Move Like This.I'll be honest, their music doesn't sound particularly new or vastly different from their earlier work, and they haven't really added much in the way of musical depth to their songs. But that's actually quite fine with me; we haven't had an album from The Cars since 1987, and hearing that familiar steel-plated eighties sound is actually quite refreshing and nostalgic looking back from 2011. I also don't think anyone (aside from a few insane audiophiles, perhaps) actually listens to The Cars for deeply rewarding music. Every sane human being, myself included, listen to The Cars because we like silly pop rock every once in a while.And that's where this album really delivers: it is almost impossible not to enjoy listening to it. I don't know how they managed it, but The Cars have delivered … Read more
William Elliott Whitmore
Field Songs
Anti (2011)
William Elliott Whitmore’s Anti debut, Animals in the Dark, was something of an outlier in his discography—the bigger label release … Read more
