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- Date Released: October 5, 2004
- Genre: Alternative/Punk
- Style: Indie Rock
- Label: Dischord Records
Yet another D.C. group that learned a few things from Wire.
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We Say...
These young inheritors of the Dischord ethos turned more soulful on their third and (it turned out) final album. Strutting bass lines, churning guitar and falsetto vocals characterize songs like "Wonderful People," but the trio demonstrates its post-punk smarts with shifting tempos and unexpected transitions. While the music is upbeat, the underlying mood is more ominous: "Wet Work," a celebration of quotidian beauty, acknowledges that "something beautiful gets shot down every day." This is another D.C. group that learned a few things from Wire, and "Tag-Tag" expands dramatically on that band's clipped minimalism, without losing any of its propulsion.
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They Say...
One of the original batch of bands that started mixing indie rock, post-punk, and disco-influenced rhythms in the '90s, Q and Not U return with Power, an album that nods to dance-punk's moment in the sun and also finds them adding more dimensions to their already versatile sound. Like Les Savy Fav, Q and Not U are among the strongest songwriters working in this style, and on Power, they're equally adept at short, sharp shocks like "L.A.X." and more introspective pieces such as "Dine." This ebb and flow makes the album less forceful than previous work like No Kill No Beep Beep, but it also makes Power more interesting, even if the ping-ponging between quietly quirky pieces like "Throw Back Your Head," an oddly folky, flute-driven song, and brainy, spazzy pop like "Wet Work" is disconcerting at first. It's tempting to single out Power's most singular moments, like the medieval harmonies on "District Night Prayer," as the album's highlights, because they're such a departure; however, "Book of Flags" and "Tag-Tag" are prime examples of the band's undeniably kinetic punk-funk. "Wonderful People" and "Beautiful Beats" are even more danceable, but still retain that paranoid, too-smart-for-their-own-good feel of all of Q and Not U's work. This feeling comes to the fore on the tense, "Glass Onion"-esque "Collect the Diamonds" and "X-Polynation," which both echo the trend of mixing politics and dance-punk, but do so more subtly, and timelessly, than the rants of !!! and Radio 4. Even when there are plenty of other bands working in a similar style, Q and Not U remain more distinctive and harder to classify than many of their peers, which makes Power an exciting album and proof that the band has variety and vitality to spare.
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| 01. |  |
Wonderful People |
3:07 |
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| 02. | |
7 Daughters |
2:21 |
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| 03. | |
L.A.X. |
2:29 |
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| 04. | |
Throw Back Your Head |
2:56 |
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| 05. | |
Wet Work |
3:18 |
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| 06. | |
District Night Prayer |
1:16 |
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| 07. | |
Collect The Diamonds |
3:43 |
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| 08. | |
Beautiful Beats |
3:05 |
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| 09. | |
Dine |
3:11 |
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| 10. | |
X - Polynation |
2:47 |
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| 11. | |
Passwords |
2:56 |
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| 12. | |
Book Of Flags |
2:44 |
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| 13. | |
Tag - Tag |
4:40 |
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13 Total Tracks, 38:33 Total Length
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Credits
- Don Zientara - Mixing // Chad Clark - Mastering // Q and Not U - Main Performer // Harris Klahr - Group Member // Pete Cafarella - Engineer // Rafael Cohen - Engineer // Nick Pimentel - Layout Design // Shawn Brackbill - Photography // John Davis & the Georgia Sea Island Singers - Group Member
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