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Lunchbox’s
Tim Brown and
Donna McKean have been making records in their Oakland, California basement for two decades inspired by 1960s/70s AM-radio pop and TV show theme music, punk, C86, and mod à la
The Creation and
The Magic of Sound (
Magic Marker Records,1999) to the dub-influenced psychedelia of
Evolver (
Lunchbox Loves You (
Their new album for
Slumberland Records,
After School Special, finds them at the height of their powers of songcraft and performance. Donna’s bass playing stakes out stylistic territory somewhere between
Carol Kaye and
Orange Juice -esque funk. Horns by Gary Olson (
Ladybug Transistor) and longtime collaborator
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For people of a certain age, the year 2000 will always sound like the future. The time of jet packs, a potential catastrophic reset when all the world s computers might crash or, as Prince put it, party over. It had an interesting effect on art too, and a lot of the music released that year felt like it was made with the future in mind. Indie bands had discovered jungle, drum n bass, big beat and other forms of club music, and were incorporating it into their style. Other groups wildly ambitious, while others looked back and forward at the same time. Some of 2000 s music has aged better than others, and some of the albums in my list were not even contenders at the time (though most were). Far from a definitive list (and probably missing some of
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