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Girl Talk

You don’t even need to get to the end of the first track of Night Ripper (Illegal Art), the third full-length from Pittsburgh’s Gregg Gillis, a.k.a. Girl Talk, to get a smile of recognition and likely your head a-bobbing. Listen just a bit and hear Slim Thug and Ying Yang Twins dropping their well known, club-tried rhymes to snatches of prog rock from Genesis, Oasis’ psychedelic Britpop and Boredoms’ noise cacophony dipping in and out. This is just the tip the iceberg.



Was the First Cut the Deepest?: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

There is something tragically poetic about pop artists who enter the public’s field of vision on the shoulders of a universally well received record. The enormous shadow cast by their inaugural work can loom grimly over even the most ambitious followup.





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