This blog is born of a New Year's resolution challenging myself to write every day. My goal is to regularly update this space with short music reviews—mainly songs, as that seems most manageable, but hopefully some albums as well—in order to exercise my skills of artistic critique (and perhaps expand my own sonic horizons in the process).
Friday, July 20, 2012
"One More Night" Maroon 5
Lead single "Payphone" still hasn't left the top three of the Billboard Hot 100 since its debut more than three months ago, but Maroon 5 is already back with another release from its latest album, Overexposed. Adhering to the band's relentlessly pessimistic love-is-pain philosophy, "One More Night" is a grim midtempo track in which sex is the only thing left holding a relationship together. (When was the last time Adam Levine sang about something happy?) The highlight is Max Martin and Shellback's production, a bubbly yet dark reggae bounce that keeps the proceedings more interesting than they have any right to be. B
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