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As if getting a spread in a popular home decor magazine just a month prior to this album's release wasn't enough of a tipoff, 2004 have come a long way since their days of mimicking Sonic Youth's brittle art-rock. Clanging guitars have been replaced by warm synthesizers and soft strings, while Japanese singer Kazu Makino's thin voice has become a ghostly moan on the grandiose opener and title track of the New York trio's seventh full-length release, 23. Their last one, 2004's Misery Is a Butterfly, was a lovely throwback to the dream-pop heyday of the Cocteau Twins and Lush. This one presses further down that road, only with a more experimental streak, as cascading guitars, military rhythms, and wobbly melodies.
Tracklist
1 23
2 Dr. Strangeluv
3 The Dress
4 SW
5 Spring And By Summer Fall
6 Silently
7 Publisher
8 Heroine
9 Top Ranking
10 My Impure Hair