The thing is, I love Mexican food. And even though half the taquerias around the world taste pretty much the same, do I care? No. Gimme a margarita and some cheese enchiladas and I'm stoked.
So should it really matter that this debut from Cleveland-born, Brooklyn-based Joe Williams aka White Williams kinda sounds exactly like outtakes from Brian Eno's HERE COME THE WARM JETS? It's one of my favorite albums - great pop songs with crazy space glam production, combining camp, horror, sex, artifice, and art in equal measures.
SMOKE is just as fun and flavorful, with bits of P.Funk, modern day hip-hop, and squirrely Fourtet-style electronics thrown in the mix. And all recorded by some bedroom wunderkind.
Is the songwriting as good? Actually, yes. Is it as clever and original? No. Does that matter? Not to my stomach. Dos mas tamales, por favor senor!
Release: Album
To Cure: The hangover
Keywords: America
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