This Portland, OR power trio is a better live band than you’d deduct from this disc. Bio claims aside, they don’t sound much like Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
Although Speed is more popular, the J-Pop group you should check out first is Max. Like Speed, they’re cute young teens with irresistible, upbeat songs.
Beck, always one to throw a change-up, slips into the cracks and becomes glorified in the public’s eye as the pop-culture-cuisenart-cum-disco-soul-jester.
Before this, I’d already gone to Musicmaker.com and customized my own two-CD set of Beastie Boys stuff. The labels played it too safe, but they always do.
For a slow disc full of tracks that take over two minutes to drag their experimental asses out of strummy auto-auroticism, To the Teeth is one gutsy album.