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More quick doses of musical knowledge to be dropped on you today. Come on in, join me in mourning trip-hop. 2002/08/01
![]() I've been listening to the last Letters to Cleo album, Go!, quite a bit lately. In point of fact, I couldn't get to sleep for hours last night because the title track (3.1MB) was so thoroughly stuck in my head. Lead singer Kay Hanley's debut solo album is due in a couple weeks and I guess that's what's gotten me listening to the Cleos so much. It's going to be an interesting thing to compare to Anna Waronker's solo debut, I think. Letters to Cleo and Anna's that dog. always seemed like complimentary acts to me, one going for studio gloss and Melrose Place soundtrack placement, the other going for rock edge and please-buy-it discount pricing on their final album. Kay sang Anna's "I Wish You Well" on the "Josie and the Pussycats" soundtrack, further cementing the link in my mind. I don't imagine Kay's record will include anything so confluential as Anna's own version of "I Wish You Well" but it'll definitely be interesting to see where her songwriting's gone in the five years she's been away. 2002/07/29
Don't get on Sophie's bad side. This week's column is loaded for bear and that's just the benefit of some poor letter writer. 2002/07/28
Because I've let myself get buried under new music without reviewing most of it, today you get the first of several handfuls of quick shot miniviews. This time out it's Avril Lavigne, Superdrag, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Ze Malibu Kids and Anna Waronker.
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