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    Time For A Witness


    The Feelies prove how much can be achieved with a few guitars and a healthy Velvet Underground fixation. Since their spectacular 1980 debut, Crazy Rhythms, they have continuously extended the limits of avant-rock – creating darkly hypnotic records without ever succumbing to pretension.

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    1991 RS: 4of 5 Stars

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Among the formal breakthroughs accomplished by the Velvet Underground was something called the drone strum. As perfected by Lou Reed, this strum didn't syncopate to emphasize the backbeat the way rock rhythm guitar usually did -- in fact, it barely syncopated at all, tending more toward chopped, evenly accented eighth notes dropped squarely on the beat. And it was this nervous chink-chink-chink-ch...

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