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Albert Hammond Jr. made a glaring error with his latest release Como Te Llama?<\/em>.<\/p>\n To be Spanish-correct, it should be called Como Te Llamas?<\/em>. Unless he meant to call himself a pack animal. Which, if the songs therein are any indication, is hardly the truth.<\/p>\n As the main (we can say it) visionary of the Strokes, that other group Hammond plays guitar with, he established with his second solo release he left the pack long ago. Where his first release, Yours To Keep<\/em>, was tentative in relishing his Strokes past (yet ultimately fulfilling), Como Te Llama<\/em> has Hammond not worrying about it. He has created a perfect piece of guitar pop.<\/p>\n Are there Strokes flourishes? Of course. With his voice distorted, Hammond comes across Casablancas-like, accompanying \u201cBargain of the Century\u201d and \u201cG Up\u201d with those traditional Strokes riffs. Are there Strokes-influenced flourishes? Sure. \u201cGFC\u201d and \u201cThe Boss Americana” are pure Brit pop (think Kinks), and really where would the Strokes be without that?<\/p>\n But then Hammond adds \u201cRocket\u201d and \u201cVictory at Monterey\u201d to the mix, with grinding guitars and just enough of a disco beat (yes, disco!) to keep you tapping and intrigued. The only breakdown is \u201cSpooky Couch\u201d; a seven-minute instrumental that is about six minutes too long.<\/p>\n As track nine, it almost serves as the album’s intermission before \u201cBorrowed Time\u201d (a groovy tune that borrows heavily from Elvis Costello) kicks off the album\u2019s tail end.<\/p>\n Does this bright piece of pop mean Hammond has left the Strokes behind? Perhaps, it\u2019s been years since the New Yorkers had a new release. But if they ever return, they can only hope to create music as strong as this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Albert Hammond Jr. made a glaring error with his latest release Como Te Llama?. To be Spanish-correct, it should be called Como Te Llamas?. Unless he meant to call himself a pack animal. Which, if the songs therein are any indication, is hardly the truth. As the main (we can say it) visionary of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1098,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[221,222],"class_list":["post-1097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-albert-hammond-jr","tag-como-te-llama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abandonedcouches.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abandonedcouches.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abandonedcouches.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abandonedcouches.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abandonedcouches.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1097"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abandonedcouches.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1099,"href":"https:\/\/abandonedcouches.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions\/1099"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abandonedcouches.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abandonedcouches.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abandonedcouches.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abandonedcouches.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}