Originally posted by Alex S:
Originally posted by E. G. Ekin:
[b] Today it's 'Duran Duran's Red Carpet Massacre'...
Same for me.
How are you finding it? It was a pleasant surprise for me, and I've gotten quite addicted to it in a short time. [/b]On first listen I like it, although because it's heading down the Electronica and R n'B path, I think it's more a grower, and perhaps not so immediate as 'Astronaut' was for some people. Saying that, the album seems to have the trademark DD signs; funky grooves, beats, ambience and lush instrumentation, banal lyrics (
'Red carpet massacre, don't wanna hassle ya...' being a fine, yet typical, Le Bon effort), and obscure subject matter, so I'd say it will do fine. It's had good write ups overall from a lot of the music press, so that's also a positive sign.
We're seeing them at the Lyceum Theatre in London early December premiering the album. They did some shows recently on Broadway in New York where they included an Electronic set in the second half (all sequences and loops, a la JF and LG), so that should be quite interesting I imagine. It's good that the band are expanding their musical boundaries and not just pushing out the same old same old.
EG