HONG KONG (Reuters) - Beijing Soft Rock Investment Group (000609.
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I would have never pegged you for a soft rock fan.
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J.P. The soft-rock phase of Nicki Minaj's career continues apace.
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Soft Rock shares soared 9.99 percent on Tuesday upon resumption of trading.
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Weezer's cover of Toto's iconic soft-rock track "Africa" just keeps… existing.
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What is it about '70s soft rock that still appeals to you?
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In the 1970&aposs, music was plagued by soft rock and progressive rock.
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They were almost forbidden subjects because they menaced, sort of like soft rock.
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Will director James Gunn find even more '70s soft-rock gems for the soundtrack?
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Hence, the LA soft-rock sound ran rampant over the LA-focused Recording Academy.
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A father/son cop dramadey starring Tony Danza and soft rock singer Josh Groban?
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One of the women selected "All My Life," by the soft-rock group America.
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The 25 turkeys enjoyed a plush upbringing, receiving hand feedings, baths, and soft rock music.
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Like low-fat ice cream or soft rock, Lambos and SUVs just didn't belong together.
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Back in the 1960s, NASA's Mariner spacecraft discovered an extremely large and unusually soft rock formation.
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The British soft-rock band is due to perform at the Singapore National Stadium on Apr.
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Even Richard Marx, the singer behind the 1980s soft rock hit, "Right Here Waiting," weighed in.
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Not to be outdone, some of Superchunk's best soft rock wasn't on any of their studio albums.
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I'm not sure any film has better captured the scary, zoned-out disconnection of '70s AM soft rock.
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Like its neighbors, Elephant Rock is a mixture of sandstone and a soft rock known as Hopewell Conglomerate.
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"Empathizers prefer mellow styles of music, soft rock, R&B and soul, music that is slower," Greenberg said.
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It follows criticism from US soft rock singer Richard Marx, who recently helped staff subdue a rowdy passenger.
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Lucky Ali, a Mumbai-born musician, went through crowd-pleasing soft rock favorites with a six-piece band.
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Like Voyager, it's best enjoyed with lowered expectations (particularly for its horrifically cheesy soft-rock opening theme song).
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Thanks to artist Max Siedentopf, the 1982 soft-rock staple turned über-meme has reached its logical conclusion.
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You can be listening to hot rock metal or you can be listening to soft rock or hip-hop.
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He saw the telescope's mesh dish, resting inside a huge sinkhole in the soft rock formations that shape the region.
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An online series, released in 2005, dramatised the careers of American "soft rock" stars and coined the term "yacht rock".
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Gentle acoustic guitars collide with an ultra-smooth soft rock groove, with jazzy chord progressions hitting all the sweet spots.
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If the sales numbers are good, I typically play soft rock or pop music like Maroon 5, which my kids like.
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Inside, the church is equipped with a lighting rig and sound system as for a gig by a soft-rock band.
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Critics generally panned albums by Wings, Mr McCartney's post-Beatles band, many of which were dominated by whimsical soft-rock fluff.
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This album is her California soft-rock jewel, a decadent dive into the sunbaked sounds and elaborate legends of Laurel Canyon.
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The guitar strumming has a rosy glow, and the parlor piano shares a gilded, wooden stiffness with early '70s soft rock.
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I have a pretty killer guitar solo over some soft rock vibes and it makes me want to buy a boat.
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At first it sounded like normal holiday schmaltz: the softest of soft-rock pianos, punched up with a twist of synth.
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The soft rock harmonizers will revisit two of their most iconic albums during their first run at the Beacon in 23 years.
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Called simply "Fleetwood Mac" (19603), it had a soft-rock sound that marked a departure from the group's harder-edged blues roots.
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Mr. Adams was born in Kingston, Ontario, but is most closely associated with Vancouver, British Columbia, where his career in soft rock began.
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But the Wine Country soundtrack is filled with soft rock perfect for harmonizing together in wine tunnels or checking out Fran Drescher-inspired art.
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This is what Maroon 5 should always have been—a pretty good soft rock band that people's parents and aunts play in their cars.
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The fast-food chain soon announced on it would be blasting the soft rock hit in a restaurant in Camden Town, London, on Tuesday.
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Not only was I competing with soft-rock music blaring in the background, but it sounded like she was battling a cold, to boot.
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Gonzalez has spoken at length about the album's unfashionable source material: soft rock, theatrical metal, chintzy disco, theme songs for shows like Punky Brewster.
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It captures a time when the pop of Cheap Trick and The Cars and the soft rock of 10CC and ELO ruled the airwaves.
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Their garage sound pulls influence from post-punk and West Coast soft rock, and they've been compared to a highlight in Black Lips' career.
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The soft-rock playlist balances what is perceived to be calming to the mice and what the technicians can bear to hear all day long.
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They skillfully mix 70's soft-rock and 80's synthpop influence but with a modern flavour, resulting in a very contagious and inspired sound.
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The X-Files star released a debut album of soft rock, Hell or Highwater, back in 2015, but only played a smattering of US gigs.
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The company said it expects to cut up to 155 jobs in the room and pillar business, which caters to underground soft rock mining customers.
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Finally, I have something in common with 2-month-old babies: we both love falling asleep to the sweet sounds of early '80s soft rock.
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It's hardly perverse that a contemporary, acclaimed former indie band should most pungently recall corporate '80s soft-rock from Bruce Hornsby to solo Don Henley.
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At the time, schlocky Europop like Whigfield's "Saturday Night" and American collegiate soft-rock such as Semisonic's "Secret Smile" became clustered in our collective consciousness.
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According to a recent study from Scottish SPCA and the University of Glasgow, dogs' favorite music genres are reggae and soft rock, according to The BBC.
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One of last year's definitive country songs was Midland's "Drinkin' Problem," which walked a tightrope between country and soft rock, classic and modern, serious and parodic.
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Mr. Styles first breached the teen/adult divide with his eponymous 29 debut, which grounds his impressive voice in gentle acoustic arrangements and soft rock tunes.
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He has a side gig, writing pop songs with Lady Gaga and Beyoncé, which might surprise fans of Father John Misty's ruminative, smutty, increasingly-soft rock.
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Unlike her compositions — a lovable admixture of American folk songs, avant-garde jazz, soft rock and Romanticism — Bley, at age 82, remains a rather inaccessible figure.
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"The sons and daughters of China follow you forward hand in hand," goes one soft-rock paean to Mr. Xi that has been downloaded thousands of times.
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Over at The Blaze, Glenn Beck's soft-rock version of the hard right, a targeted demographic is the grumpy Trump supporter who wants to Grow Your Own.
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Such is the case with Chicago soft-rock revivalists Whitney, who are releasing a compilation of every demo for their debut album Light Upon the Lake this November.
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Although John Mayer is best known as a singer-songwriter in the soft rock and blues genres, he is not afraid to experiment and collaborate in different genres.
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After two sly country-pop albums and a heartwarmingly cute Christmas collection, she goes full soft-rock, inventing her own strain of coffeehouse pop designed for unobtrusive delicacy.
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Another junior miner Bacanora Minerals is focused on bringing on new soft rock lithium production, which is potentially cheaper to process than hard rock, in Mexico in 2019.
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Plus his production and songwriting are largely self-contained, so the incestuous LA soft rock cabal—in whatever form it's in today—isn't as big an influence here.
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But 226-year-old Hu, a member of popular soft rock duo Yu Quan and a household name in China, wasn't going to talk about his new album's release.
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According to a study by the Scottish SCPA and the University of Glasgow, dogs showed "the most positive behavior changes" when they were played reggae, along with soft rock.
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A sitar riff hangs among frosted soft-rock synths, bells crash in like it's Christmas, and the anxiety and desolation that haunts so much of Burial's music ebbs away.
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After giving the world one of 2018's most surprising wholesome news arcs, Weezer are now back to making songs that weren't originally written by soft rock behemoths Toto.
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In memoriam: Daryl Dragon, one half of the soft-rock duo Captain and Tennille whose 1970s hits included "Love Will Keep Us Together" and "Muskrat Love," died at 76.
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Somewhere between '70s soft rock, lite disco and indie pop, it doesn't ask much more of Styles's voice than a gentle coo, and surrounds it with a plangent sparkle.
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It seems too cute to suggest that soft rock and its aesthetic allies are wandering back into the public consciousness because the world is in crisis, but here we are.
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Going to the grocery store can turn even the most organized planner into an overwhelmed and helpless shopper, dazed by the organization system, soft rock soundtrack, and bright overhead lighting.
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Check "Yosoiki" for dance-rock that isn't cheesy and actually limber, while "Sukima" rides a sunny soft-rock strut that sounds like if Toto (yes, Toto) were even more instrumentally adept.
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As the beverage director at Mission Chinese Food, his drinks have done everything from glow in the dark to pay tribute to 80s soft rock icons (looking at you, Phil Collins).
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Oh, and though it came six years before Cher's soft rock phase officially began with 1987's eponymous album, her barnstorming Meat Loaf duet "Dead Ringer for Love" definitely fits here.
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Now based in Los Angeles, Korkejian records songs that rest at the intersection of folk and soft rock; they sound like they could have been released yesterday, or 259 years ago.
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His solo debut is a self-titled shining collection of '70s-inspired soft-rock tracks — a capsule of what the 23 year-old showed us only glimpses of during his 1D days.
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You can tweet about Aphex Twin all you want, but at the end of the day your local soft rock radio station bumps Michelle Branch just as much as the next guy's.
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Country music has maintained a close relationship with islands and their beaches for at least 40 years, ever since Jimmy Buffett's "Margaritaville" helped guide people into a soft rock, nautical-themed retirement.
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"Pushing 40 in the friend zone," he laments on this '70s soft-rock cool breeze, produced by him along with No I.D., who gave Jay-Z's "4:44" its warmth and pulse.
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He turned to music, migrating from soft rock to grunge rock to heavy metal, before landing in third-wave ska groups like the Worms and Blinking Underdogs, which attracted a local following.
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South Korean news outlet Chosun Ilbo reported that Trump provided Pompeo a recording of the soft rock song, released on Elton John's 1972 album "Honky Château," to give Kim as a joke.
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Mr Walker retreated for most of the 1970s, recording substandard covers on mediocre albums, perhaps to meet contractual obligations, and reuniting with the Walker Brothers for a string of unremarkable soft-rock records.
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She sells an assortment of substances to a hapless young A&R man (Jack Quaid) so he can get through a marathon recording session with the soft-rock duo England Dan & John Ford Coley.
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Growing up with their musician father Cory Lerios, who is a founding member of the platinum-record-selling soft rock band Pablo Cruise, Michael and Demitri "just followed his footsteps" into the rockstar life.
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Soft Rock said in the statement on Monday that it had been in discussions with Dalian Wanda Group to issue company shares in exchange for all the shares in Dalian Wanda Commercial Properties [DWNDF.PK].
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But Wanda, owned by China's richest man, Wang Jianlin, said on its website on Tuesday that it had not had any formal negotiations with Beijing Soft Rock regarding restructuring of Dalian Wanda Commercial Properties.
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Enough people remember what it was like to snuggle on a couch with their not-yet-divorced parents taking in the cheesy soft rock that announced the beginning of another episode of Full House.
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It is first heard on a jukebox (in a soft-rock version sung by John Doe) while Costner's bodyguard character Frank Farmer dances with Houston's Rachel Marron in his own milieu, a working-class bar.
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He transformed Justin Bieber's "What do You Mean" into a treacly slow-dance number, and flipped Katy Perry's "Teenage Dream" into the kind of soft-rock anthem you might hear late at night on QVC.
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That this approach strips her songs of tension is the point, as the album aims to define a new mode of soft rock, easy listening for a commercial climate where no such mode currently exists.
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Following Ansari's Saturday Night Live monologue request, the music playing during Muslim prayer is the least menacing song in history: 1970s soft rock song "I Must Be In A Good Place Now" by Bobby Charles.
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On his releases as Slow Dancer, including the excellent "In a Mood," from this year, Mr. Okely draws on pop, soul and soft-rock traditions to offer a warm, inviting sound that's all his own.
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With music and lyrics by Graham Russell of the soft-rock band Air Supply, "A Wall Apart" is a smart, high-energy exercise in idealism, a rock musical with love and politics on its mind.
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But Mr. Vernon's score, which draws from the period's disco, soft rock and glam sounds, is solid — which is important, since the evening essentially consists of "all about me" songs by the staff and patrons.
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What promises to make the series distinctive is its simultaneously jaunty and corrosive depiction of the music industry — bloated, spectacularly corrupt and stuck in the soft-rock doldrums before the emergence of punk and hip-hop.
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"Both parties were in preliminary contact, and had not been in any negotiation regarding restructuring of Dalian Wanda Commercial Properties," Wanda said, adding Beijing Soft Rock had sent the statement without Wanda's knowledge and was exaggerating.
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The title track and "My Old Man" are just as laidback and sophisticated as Mac's previous material, but their primarily acoustic backing gives them more of a country flavour than the soft rock of Another One.
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On "What is the Time" Longstreth muses over a soft rock/R&B blend that somehow works—with just enough tweaks and quirks to move away from cheeky territory—backed by surprisingly nimble upper-register male voices.
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The Weezer-cover-"Africa" cycle, a dream-come-true for one hero-child and an unexpected source of joy for soft-rock enjoyers everywhere, has sustained itself largely because Weezer have so gleefully bought into the joke.
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Daryl Dragon, the "Captain" half of the pop duo the Captain and Tennille, whose string of soft-rock hits in the 20143s included "Love Will Keep Us Together" and "Muskrat Love," died on Wednesday in Prescott, Ariz.
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Many of city pop's biggest acts would also seek to channel the sounds of California into their jazzy, soft-rock radio songs, adorning their albums with imagery of vintage cars cruising along the coastline against impossibly blue skies.
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Even after releasing more than a half dozen albums worth of original music, beginning with 2011's soft rock outing Starting From Nowhere with composer Davin Wood, Awesome Show remains what most who know him associated him with.
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Let's go: Bibio, "Town & Country" Stephen Wilkinson's new album A Mineral Love taps into some of the same sounds you can hear on Junk, the new M33 record: retro commercial jingles, '80s TV show themes, maligned soft rock.
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Clinton chose the British-American band's single "Don't Stop" as the theme song for his 1992 presidential campaign, helping to revive their popularity and encouraging the fractious soft rock band to reunite for his inaugural ball in 1993.
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By the middle of the decade, when her soft rock phase seemed to be running out of steam (and perhaps hairspray), Cher pivoted and went a little more soulful with the underrated 20123 album It's a Man's World.
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Clinton chose the British-American band's single "Don't Stop" as the theme song for his 1992 presidential campaign, helping to revive their popularity and encouraging the fractious soft rock band to reunite for his inaugural ball in 1993.
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During Bon Iver's frequent hiatuses, Vernon has recorded and toured with Gayngs, a largely Midwestern supergroup devoted to eighties soft rock, and Volcano Choir, a Wisconsin rock band that specializes in a kind of chugging, open-road ambience.
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First of all: literally everyone there knows all the words to this song, even the older lady at 0:21, proving that this piece of music truly reaches across generations, swaddling us all in its soft rock embrace.
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Adam "Moves Like Jagger" Levine has seemingly always had designs on mainstream sex god status, and if he has to abandon soft rock, and literally the entire concept of genre, by the wayside my god he will do it.
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The album makes a case that Cleveland hasn't been given its due as the place where art and guitars came together in fascinating ways while the rest of America was dozing off to the soothing sounds of soft rock.
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As a sweaty Jennifer in a tiny white vest devours her grotty Myspace babe, elsewhere Needy starts to see blood on the ceiling from her missionary spot under her pathetically thrusting soft rock dude, a vision of Jennifer's slaughtering.
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The blend of ringing guitar arpeggios, plucked banjos, and electronic polish simulating the rosy amber of pedal steel, meshing with glistening keyboards and stop/start/rise/drop electrohouse dynamics, produces the current pop climate's closest equivalent to soft rock.
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Its peaks are alpine, its lows almost nonexistent, and in the record's 11-song tussle between lovers—between light and dark, sweetness and bitterness, British blues and West Coast soft-rock—it's united still by its glossy, California sheen.
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SEOUL (Reuters) - American soft rock singer Richard Marx helped subdue a "chaotic" and "dangerous" passenger who launched a lengthy, violent scuffle on board a Korean Air flight from Vietnam to South Korea, the singer said on his Twitter account.
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"The Driver" (Capitol Nashville) For almost a decade, Charles Kelley has been the male anchor of Lady Antebellum, one of the most popular groups in country music and the one that has most assiduously pushed the genre toward soft-rock oblivion.
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We hope that Uncle Jesse has moved on to big things all these years later, but surely there will be some Tanner family milestone that can be made all the more poignant with a soft rock ballad by Jesse's band.
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With her newfound career as a singer and songwriter (this month, she followed up "AM/FM," a collection of soft-rock covers from 2012, with "Rita Wilson," a group of songs she co-wrote), it seemed the perfect time to visit.
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This sadly currently unavailable mix, recorded for The Rig Out, is an hour or so of brilliantly blissed out soft rock obscurities, psyche-tinged folk private press bangers, and the kind of balmy ballads that positively reek of sadness and suncream.
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The go-to answer, typically, can be found in the term coined by the eponymous mid-00s web series lovingly spoofing the late 70s/early80s blend of soft rock and smooth jazz that McDonald pioneered alongside the likes of Loggins.
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But the middle section of the bill is most intriguing — the Southern rock titans ZZ Top; the soft-rock crooner Brett Young and also the hip-hop-conversant LoCash; the unerringly sincere Dan + Shay and the pitch-perfect ironists Midland.
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The libretto was a fanciful meditation on, among other things, entwined forms of imperialism, and in Longstreth's rendering Henley became a sort of soft-rock Oppenheimer, conflicted about his epochal hits and their role in the flattening of world culture.
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You can call it alternative, alt-country, Southern-fried soft rock, or the music a mason jar would make if it could make music, but the bottom line is that this is country music for people who like the White Stripes.
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The neighborhood was shrouded in a drug haze but it also produced some of the most memorable music of the time and was the spiritual home to 'soft rock,' an amalgam of influences that included blues, rock, jazz, country, psychedelia, bluegrass, and folk.
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British soft rock band Coldplay has added a second show to a Singapore concert leg next April, responding to fans disappointed by a chaotic process this week that saw the first-come, first-served sale of tickets get snapped up in 10 minutes.
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British metal band Deep Purple, soft rock-pop group Chicago, singer Steve Miller, and 1970s rock band Cheap Trick rounded out the 2016 inductees, who were chosen by fans and more than 800 voters of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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The annual Forbes Celebrity 210 list also saw soccer stars Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and Neymar among the top 10, along with British singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran and 1970s soft rock band The Eagles, who embarked on a new tour in 2018.
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The singers technically fall into different genres — Harry's songs might be classified as pop and soft rock, while Lizzo's discography is mostly high-energy R&B and soul — but their "Juice" duet is proof that the world deserves another Harry/Lizzo collab.
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Not long afterward, Buckingham was asked to join Fleetwood Mac, a British blues band featuring the singer and keyboard player Christine McVie, the bassist John McVie, and the drummer Mick Fleetwood; the group was being rebooted as an American soft-rock act.
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Elsewhere there are soft-rock ballads and R&B songs, none of them subject to anything like the skepticism that has greeted Lil Nas X, whose reference points might in fact be more classically country (even if refracted through a kitsch lens).
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His final two Warner albums, "Gorilla" (1975) and "In The Pocket" (1976), saw him reclaim his commercial standing—if not his unsought position at the heart of American culture—with a smooth soft-rock sound from which he would seldom thereafter stray very far.
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Now behold waves of pealing keyboard ripples, noodling trebly guitar, sweeping electronic strings, organic grooves inhabiting a soft-rock variant on neosoul, and a panoply of chirpy female R&B voices, most prominently Estelle and Kali Uchis, whispering sweet nothings and providing vocal cushioning.
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And the "woohoo" line—arguably a celebratory high point as far as the lyrics are concerned—is sampled from "Every Breath You Take" by The Police which is, famously, a miserable bit of soft rock about an obsessive stalker masquerading as a love song.
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Playlist: "Take Me Home" / "Hell on Wheels" / "Wasn't It Good" / "Bad Love" / "Strong Enough" In the late 80s, just as Cher was establishing herself as a genuinely credible actress, she also revived her music career—this time, by throwing herself into ultra-glossy soft rock.
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One of the rare female voices in the current scene (as you can imagine, the neo-Nazi scene is rather misogynistic) is a Swedish woman named Saga who is well-known for her soft rock covers of white power music—think a neo-Nazi Celine Dion.
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A lot of the music I had turned to in my most vulnerable moments—post-election, after moving to a new city, during a mild case of heartbreak—were built on the soft rock stylings of the 1970s, featuring abundant slide guitars, layered vocals, and plush piano stabs.
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In 1981, the year Strait emerged, Mandrell topped the chart with "I Was Country When Country Wasn't Cool," a charming ode to country authenticity (flannel shirts, the Grand Ole Opry, "puttin' peanuts in my Coke") that seemed both defiant and defensive—its piano-driven arrangement was practically soft rock.
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"Joanne" (Streamline/Interscope), which recasts the onetime disco queen as a soft-rock balladeer — to a mixed response from critics — sold 6,000 copies and had 25.7 million streams in the United States in its opening week, giving the album the equivalent of just over 200,000 sales, according to Nielsen.
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Built in the 12th century as a haven during a time of Persian invasions, the honeycomb cave complex at Vardzia is associated with Georgia's famed Queen Tamara, a charismatic ruler who can be seen in a fresco in the Church of the Dormition, itself carved out of soft rock.
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That band had a string of soft-rock hits in the 1970s, mostly sung by Balin, including "Miracles" and "Count on Me." In 1996 Jefferson Airplane was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame along with Gladys Knight and the Pips, Pink Floyd, the Velvet Underground and David Bowie.
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Neko Case: Hell-On (Anti-) One of indie-rock's longest-running eccentric singer-songwriters, Neko Case started out a country singer before gradually shedding genre identifiers — pedal steel, vocal twang–and settling into a sort of adult-contemporary soft rock, the closest thing indie obscurantists have to musical comfort food.
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To the uninitiated, this Doobie Brothers and Steely Dan alumnus might not seem like a hip-hop mainstay; yet, through his career as a soft rock and R&B innovator, he helped create the bedrock for tracks from Warren G's classic "Regulate" to more recent songs by everyone from Meek Mill to Madlib.
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A generational guitar talent and reliable soft-rock hitmaker with seven Grammys, Mr. Mayer is also a master conversationalist prone to verbal solos, noodling in impressionistic bursts about his nature and career, weaving in therapy-speak, potential stand-up bits and a barrage of mixed metaphors as if he's writing this story himself.
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Mayer, whose audience seems to consist of cool young moms, whose brand of soft rock is comes with just enough knowing irony to drag us all in, who said such dumb racist shit to Playboy and the Rolling Stone that he's been apologizing for the better part of a decade, doesn't simply smoke weed.
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For the dogs — who were outfitted with heart monitors to check out their stress levels while they listened to a variety of musical styles like Motown, pop and classical — reggae came in at the top of the stress-reducing list, with soft rock (presumably Michael McDonald, Christopher Cross, etc.) coming in at a close second.
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While it's up to the individual listener to determine whether FJM succeeds in his ambition or not, we'll have to see if the album version of "Leaving LA" slaps as hard as Bran Van 3000's deathless "Drinking in LA" or the obscure soft rock heater which shares the same name as FJM's song.
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Much of the song's power comes from the weird tension it builds between this mundane setting ("We took her groceries to the checkout stand/The food was totaled up and bagged/We stood there lost in our embarrassment/As the conversation dragged") and the sound of the music itself: a lush, orchestral, soft-rock thickening.
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It's a combination that found its proper footing with the band's first record on an actual label (Bar/None Records), 2011's self-titled album, 12 songs that were cobbled together from the already-released Slow Dance To Soft Rock EP as well as the tracks from a cancelled EP called Grip 'N' Tie.
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But, as Andrew watched the cashier ring up the strawberries and the blueberries and the apples and the bananas, this phrase unfurled in his thoughts, beyond his thoughts, really, since he had no notion of darkness or dawn under those fluorescent lights, innocuous soft rock coming down from above, the cheerful young woman bagging the produce.
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Vernon and crew arrived onstage at 9:20 PM, after a day's lineup that included Vince Staples, James Blake, and Bruce Hornsby, the latter being an apparent idol of Vernon's and a man whose soft rock classics are permanently embedded in the musical consciousness of most people born before 1985 (which much of the crowd at Eaux Claires was).
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The word fawning has appeared in 51 New York Times articles in the past year, including on March 7 in "Move Over Mao: Beloved 'Papa Xi' Awes China" by Andrew Jacobs and Chris Buckley: "The sons and daughters of China follow you forward hand in hand," goes one soft-rock paean to Mr. Xi that has been downloaded thousands of times.
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There's a refreshing unpretentiousness to these sections: The brothers are unabashed fans of kitsch like "The Karate Kid Part II" and the soft-rock duo Air Supply, and their close-knit kinship turns poignant when Jay has an emotional breakdown as a student at the University of Texas at Austin and Mark, still in high school, travels there to take care of him.
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She has a zest for bold assertions, and some of them land: Her attention to the physical intimacy between Creole women and their black servants, the domestic eroticism of "gospel mothers," the sensuous intimacy of soft rock, and the puritan sexual disgust of punk are all useful diversifications from the bawdy journey through national puberty that is the book's primary narrative.
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Its initial lightning-in-a-bottle success was already gobsmacking, but to see Vernon's outlet evolve from desolate, wintry folk, Grammy-winning soft rock on his 2011 follow-up Bon Iver, to 2016's 22, A Million and its fragmented and numerologically-minded electronics, and now a wonderful and ambitious synthesis on his stunning latest full-length i,i is even more striking.
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For the uninitiated, the music that Pale Waves make is vaguely palatable—a white-bread type of soft rock delivered from the lower supermarket shelves you really have to squat down to reach and seemingly tailored for a Made In Chelsea scene where a man huffs into his golden cocktail after a woman storms angrily out of a low-lit bar.
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But for the youngsters who were entranced by Oracular's future-sick gumdrops and got lost in what followed (2010's wonderfully confounding Congratulations, 2013's grab-baggy self-titled effort), there's plenty to grab a hold on to—from the teen prom swirls of "Me and Michael" to the dark disco of the title track and album closer "Hand It Over"'s soft-rock glow.
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Rounding out the class of 2020, which will be feted by the Rock Hall on May 2 in Cleveland, are the gothy synth-pop group Depeche Mode, which had hits throughout the '80s and '90s; the Doobie Brothers, who brought soul, country and jazz sounds into its top-selling '70s soft rock; and T-Rex, the English glam-rock band fronted by Marc Bolan until his death in 13.
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These days, Mr. Dando has a lot of time to read and think, and over breakfast, the former prep school student who managed four Fs and one D-, he said, in his one semester at Skidmore College found his thoughts dashing between the early American Calvinists, the 1960s cult known as the Lyman family, the Scottish comedian Billy Connolly, the intellectual legacy of William James and the seamy underside of the '70s soft rock scene.
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The Darcys reintroduced themselves as a Miami Vice-core pop duo with "Miracle," a radio-friendly single whose chorus hints to the arpeggiating synth line of The Human League's 1981 hit "Don't You Want Me." DIANA also returned with the dreamy synth washes of "Slipping Away," echoing Roxy Music's atmospheric 1982 classic album Avalon, and Shad revealed his soft-rock alter ego Your Boy Tony Braxton, somewhere between Control Janet Jackson and Reckless Bryan Adams, on Adult Contempt.
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