RSSLike Bis, the more mature pop combo Tiger extend the guitar-saturated garage-band attitude to various keyboards (including Moog bass) without sounding at all techie, much less techno. But in general, this pushing-30 quintet from the outback of southwestern England takes a broader approach than the upbeat Glaswegians. On the EP Shining in the Wood (Bar/None), they're just as unvirtuosic but with tastes that run every which way, constructing chameleonic songs that remind sympathetic listeners of whatever they most want to be reminded of. Only Tiger's delight itself is unmistakable. And in pop, delight is the ultimate prize.
Anyone who's concluded that DJ Shadow's master class in sampling, Endtroducing . . . DJ Shadow, is what the hip hop aesthetic is for should check out Laytrx--The Album (Solesides), on which his buddies Lateef and Lyrics Born rap to the same purpose--and sometimes to Shadow's own funk tracks.
Playboy, May 1997
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