Wish I could help ya, but I’m only really familiar with his later work as a playback singer for Bollywood movies, which I suspect is catered to be more commercially accessible.

So, the new National album was written by an AI pretending to be The National, right?

Nice try, Elon. You probably thought considering the band no one would be able to tell, that they always sound exactly the same and that this would be an easy one to sneak passed us undetected, but I can sniff this shit out.
 

I'm too high



 

I like that Primal Scream; gonna have to dig deeper. 

Looks like we might be on a similar wavelength; maybe it's something about the onset of summer:








     In August 2002, after a couple of years floundering from a major dent in my life plan, I sold my car and embarked on what would become three years abroad, two months in the hinterlands of Western China followed by three years in Japan and almost completely out–of reach of whatever was going on back in the Western Hemisphere (save for the few lifelines tossed to me by good friends like our mutual friend and boardhost).
     Jurassic 5 appears to be one of those amazing things to blow up during that time, with their debut dropping in October of that year, just two months after my departure from the the Western world. I would've been fresh off a two–day ferry from Shanghai to Osaka, sleeping in "bijunessu hoterus" by night and working the phones and Internet by day in search of employment, eventually landing in a run–down burg far from the action for my baptism of fire in learning the ropes of a linguistic and cultural environment entirely foreign to anything I had known or learned. Lots flew under my radar during that time, including, apparently, Jurassic 5.
     My guess is that this group got a little outshined by mainstream crossover mega–hits from established talent like Outkast's Speakerboxx/The Love Below and The Roots' Phrenology and The Tipping Point — stuff that I would get exposed to during my yearly trips back to Tennessee for the holidays — but for whatever reason, I'm just now discovering Jurassic 5 over 20 years after they apparently blew the fuck up to enjoy a healthy dose of success in their own right. After hearing the track What's Golden about four days ago I was hooked enough to buy the album it came from, Power in Numbers, and upon hearing it today, I regret nothing. Proper praise cannot be expressed any other way without saying it the way it would've been said at the time: fuckin' dope. 

Ah, correction: Jurassic 5 had their debut in 1995. It was this album, Power in Numbers, that dropped in October 2002.

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