ARTIST / BAND: MS. JOHN SODA
SONG (MP3): OUTLINED VIEW
ALBUM: Notes and the like
FILE UNDER: Lap Pop
LABEL: morr music
INFO: Ms. John Soda's 2002 No P. or D. was one of the few lap-pop records that wasn't straight-up teflon. Talk about a genre that produces a lot of unmemorable drivel: From the last few years, its standout records are either not really lap-pop (Octet's Cali-pop-smitten Cash and Carry Songs) or just exceptionally bad (Styrofoam's Linkin Park-smitten Nothing's Lost). But No P. or D. was different. It had happy hooks and melancholy hooks and lush quasi-acoustic instrumentation, and it sounded just as good on a sunny day as on a rainy reflective one. The German duo of Stephanie Bцhm and Micha Acher (the Notwist) substituted layered melodies for stacks of blippy folderol, creating a record free of the superfluous electronic baggage and nonessential sounds this stuff often swims in.
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