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By: Dennis Cook
This trundles to life with a roller rink organ being pushed into a black hole, the notes stretched and pulled by strong gravity while Katrina Ford's wild, cooing voice woos us towards the "sundown dance of a forest romance." Like a more bucolic Siouxsie and the Banshees, Celebration offer up percussive strangeness with a tenacious, poundingly energetic stranglehold. The Modern Tribe (4AD) moves like groovy tectonic plates in flux, the ground shifting and kicking up sharp bits and warm vapors. This sophomore effort builds considerably on their debut, helped along a great deal by producer David Sitek of TV On The Radio, who brings in bandmates Tunde Adebimpe and Kyp Malone to help create a shifting soundscape that's a worthy neighbor to Cookie Mountain. A sense of hungry imagination infuses every slippery passage, which results in a "pop album" that borrows more than a little mojo from outsiders like Meredith Monk and Steve Reich. They just have the good trickster sense to slap a pair of skates on those iconoclasts.
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