Culled from an album that finds the group revisiting the sounds of the Platters, Santo and Johnny, and Les Baxter, "Taboo" is in tune of a different time but may ultimately find us reflecting on our own.
Lambchop's new album is the musical equivalent of that final "walk" monologue from Synecdoche, New York. It's a heavy listen, but potentially a rapturous one as well, for anyone who has ever experienced a reverie of aging and all it entails.
Pink Martini's Sympathique quickly established the band's wheelhouse and its de facto mission: introducing classic American music to the world and introducing the world to American audiences.
Rereleasing Paul Page's tiki bar-ready exotica dredges up vintage cultural tensions surrounding colonialism and appropriation on Pacific Paradise.
