Power Pop and Its Discontents
SlateSloan A Sides Win: Singles 1992-2005 Power pop isn’t derived from the Beatles, exactly; it’s derived from bands that learned at the feet of the Beatles—Big Star, Badfinger, and the Raspberries. In the first two lines of Gimme Fiction’s“Sister Jack,” singer/guitarist Britt Daniel articulates the two great themes of power pop: frustrated desire and the absurd machinations of the music world. Various Artists Yellow Pills: Prefill Valorizing one’s outsider status naturally leads power pop to a fascination with the dusty crannies of its own history. Jordan Oakes compiled the Yellow Pills anthologies of half-forgotten power-pop records in the ‘90s; he’s been lured out of semiretirement to put together Prefill, a new collection of the genre’s really obscure circa-1980 nuggets. The New Pornographers“Twin Cinema” An MP3 officially leaked in advance of the New Pornographers’ third album, “Twin Cinema” is gloriously and typically cryptic.
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