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Carsick Cars – It’s hard to review Carsick Cars other than to call them the embodiment of Daydream Nation-era Sonic Youth, with the nutty guitar sounds abounding. The difference is, of course, that they sing in Chinese. Nutty guitar effects abound, great sounds, great beats, wonderful drumming and bass, great vocal harmonising, wonderful riffs. The songs are mainly pretty same-same-y, but in that sense it’s easy enough to say that all of them are very good songs!
The album’s best song is cialis best place buy online“, which is also the name of China’s “White House”, a compound for the Chinese Communist Party. Kind of a ballsy thing to sing about, I’d say, as it could be easily (and enthusiastically) misunderstood by Chinese nationalists of all stripes. It’s mainly a repetitive riff over the word Zhongnanhai, with a great chugging beat, with some great groovy noise in the middle, before a return to the regular song and its repetitive mantra/lyric! Here’s a video of the band playing it live.
After listening to this album repeatedly, it’s really very hard to say anything about it, other than how very Sonic Youth-ish it sounds. I really can’t. But the musicianship is great, the sounds are cool, and the beat and structure is great. Hearing someone ramble in Chinese is actually not all that different from hearing someone ramble in English. I mean… nobody really understands what the Sonic Youth guys are talking about anyway, right?