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Foreign Born - Person to Person
Foreign Born’s music, as their name implies, travels. On Person to Person, the band takes musical traditions from around the world, wraps them up in indie-pop, and delivers them neatly packaged as extremely catchy summer songs. We’re taken to the new orleans bayous, south African townships, and the beaches of Lagos. The stomp and sway of zydeco seeps into “Winter games,” as singer Matt Popieluch’s wavering, laid-back voice plays with cowbells and handclaps. The tip-toeing of the ebullient guitars of “Early Warnings” evoke the South African rhythms that made their way into Paul Simon’s Sub-Saharan infused, Graceland. But Person to Person does not simply glean these cultural influences, instead Foreign Born interprets them through a filter of rock and roll. “Vacationing People,” takes Brit poppy rhythms, interweaves Caribbean guitar lines, and culminates in a brass band closing out the song in a slow march. sunny, but never sappy, Person to Person provides a vacation from ennui-filled, mope rock.
from Musica Univeralis Column for Flaunt Magazine, Issue 103 2009
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