The Music

The Music take classic, mid-'70s rock bravura and touch it up with a bit of post-rave melancholia and soul-searching. One minute they're sailing the waves of a cosmic sea, the next they're unleashing a torrent of whoops and hollers like a tailgate party circa 1974. Brit-pop with a Zeppelin fetish.

At last, a review that's only about the Music. As the portentous name suggests, this quartet
from Leeds, England, dotes on big signals: the stentorian cries of Led Zep and U2 driven by
the block-rockin' beats of heavy electronica. The songwriting needs a personality infusion
and more gray cells, but numbers such as "The Dance" have the enthusiasm of a puppy
powered by a nuclear reactor, making the Music an apt opening act for the likes... More >