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In a bar fight, the punk-rock, electroclash queen would mop the floor with all five Spices and probably still have energy left to take on those annoying Simpson sisters. Impeach My Bush, is Merrill (Peaches) Beth Nisker's third release. In her typical shock-rock, hip-hop style Peaches creates a...

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Published inCalgary herald
Main Author Nick Lewis, Theresa Tayler, Heath McCoy and Jeff Vrabel
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Calgary, Alta Postmedia Network Inc 18.07.2006
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Franti, Michael
Yorke, Thom
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Summary:In a bar fight, the punk-rock, electroclash queen would mop the floor with all five Spices and probably still have energy left to take on those annoying Simpson sisters. Impeach My Bush, is Merrill (Peaches) Beth Nisker's third release. In her typical shock-rock, hip-hop style Peaches creates a blend of catchy punk tunes. She plays almost all of the instruments on her songs, programs her own beats and produces her records. Impeach My Bush is full of her usual blend of sexual innuendo and sexually literal lyrics. Matthew Bellamy has the second prettiest voice in English rock today (after [Thom Yorke]), and he belts it on opener Take A Bow before gearing it back to a falsetto coo on Far Away. As tight as the rhythm section of Dominic Howard and Chris Wolstenholme are, it's Bellamy's ability to both shriek and whisper confidently that drives most Muse material and much of this album. But he can't always save it from its own rock pomp, and like a lot of prog-rock albums, Black Holes & Revelations starts to feel heavy-handed towards the end, a problem even its predecessor succumbed to. [Michael Franti] wastes no time getting to the point: opener Time to Go Home brandishes enough slogans to populate an anti-war rally. Despite its framing device, Yell Fire! leaves time for some geographically appropriate reggae (Hello Bonjour, featuring Sly & Robbie), danceables (Hey Now Now) and unapologetically optimistic ballads (One Step Closer to You).
ISSN:0828-1815