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Chixdiggit Born on the First of July (Honest Don's) After being dropped from Sub Pop these lovestruck Calgarians brush themselves off and remain as stupid and catchy as ever. Nothing too quirky or thought provoking here, just pop/punk as it should be played... with no brains at all. Chixdiggit tap the keg of utter stupidity by sticking to the time-tested topics of chicks and jobs. Forget the stuffy sounds of Glenn Gould and Philip Glass and dig these brilliant braindead firecrackers. 8/10 (Johnson Cummins) Chixdiggit with Groovie Ghoulies Tuesday, June 9 at Jailhouse. The Brian Jonestown Massacre Strung out in Heaven (TVT/A&M) It's confirmed: rock reached its peak in 1969 and, '70s "progressions" notwithstanding, it's been a slow slide rummaging down the landfill hill ever since. Anton Newcombe, Mr. Brian Jonestown Massacre, knows this and celebrates it. He's put out a Stones album, a Syd Barrett album, a Seeds album, and his seventh (first for a big label) is somewhere along the Dylan-Donovan axis--all rolling organ and harmonica and a riff pimped from "Mellow Yellow"--amid the earlier nods. Good fun--in a poison Kool Aid kinda way. 8/10 (Chris Yurkiw)
A new shipment of fossilized funky fromaggio has arrived from the Land Shaped Like a Boot. One gets the impression that early-'70s Italy was a bottomless cornucopia of ridiculously clever kitsch/pop/funk/jazz cinema sounds, as good as the cheap exploitation flicks they accompanied were bad. Hallucinatory hijinks ("Hyde Park"), creepy crime funk ("Matto Grosso,""Vortice"), moody melancholia ("Leyla Theme")... like a decent spaghetti sauce, it's all in there. 8/10 (Rupert Bottenberg)
Architecture is defined as the science and/or art of design and construction. In '97 the U.K. press declared Terry Francis as one of the best DJs around for his hybridization of the metallic cool of groovy techno and the beautiful warmth of deep house. This CD's superstructure was built by his mixing prowess and has a foundation of the finest dance music around. Call it a space you can move around in. 8.5/10 (Spunky Balboa) Terry Francis plays at Groove Society on June 11 with Buster, the Notorious W.I.G. and L.U.V.
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Various Stroboscopica: Sonorizzazioni Psycho Beat (Plastic/Fusion III)
Terry Francis Architecture: a Continuous Mix (Pagan/Nice)