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To Listen To. Saavn. Pitchfork. Niki and the Dove: Instinct. ▶ Fergus & Geronimo: Funky Was the State of Affairs. ▶ Bonde Do Rolê: Tropicalbacanal. It was easy to assume Brazilian club brats Bonde Do Rolê would never make it to a second album.
Their first, 2007's With Lasers, was everything you'd probably want out of a drunken party. Innocently horny. Up for anything. Vaguely illicit but basically non-threatening. Fueled by loud, dumb, grungy beats, as if art-school punks had suddenly fixed on hip-house as the way forward circa 1989. Unsubtle would be an understatement, and it certainly wasn't for every occasion. Stranger and cruder acts than Bonde have matured in interesting ways, though. Musically, Tropicalbacanal is bright as neon paint splashed against white walls, with hooks that make it as mindlessly enjoyable as a daylong piña colada session on one of those indie rock booze cruises.
Grappling with their country's musical history doesn't exactly mean these kids have transmogrified into Milton Nascimento overnight, but it does mean they have certain standards to live up to. Apache Dropout: Bubblegum Graveyard. A trio of long-striving Midwestern music geeks, the members of Apache Dropout spent years riding the currents between punk and free-form noise only to wind up back in their Bloomington, Ind., basement bashing out Nuggets-worthy skronk-pop.
It's a good thing they did: In a year crowded with psych-rock reboots and garage rock re-thinks, the band's 2011 self-titled debut stuck out. Rather than favoring the minimalism of 1980s UK groups like Spacemen 3 and Loop (long the go-to influences for stoney lo-fi basement bands) or a relentless Stooges-style chug, Apache Dropout drove the wayback machine even further into the past, choosing to emphasize the shuffling, swinging rhythms of old weird rock'n'roll. Songs like "Sam Phillips Rising" dialed in the necessary amount of pummeling repetition and echo-drenched vocals, but broke the monotony using rhythmic cues swiped from country western 45s, bubblegum pop jingles, and goofball R&B.
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