My final feature from Pitchfork’s list of 2023’s best songs is the electro-pop track ‘Shiver’ by Swedish act Fever Ray (a project by musician Karin Dreijer).
This is the sort of Bjork-ian weirdness that music critics seem required to like. One of the reasons I’m glad I’m a fan and not a critic is the lack of responsibility to keep up with artists and songs like this.
Despite Maroon 5’s bevy of hit singles since Adam Levine took to his red chair on The Voice, I don’t believe they’ve ever topped their debut album.
2002’s Songs About Jane is alternately jazzy and muscular, a sleek and sexy song cycle that delivers from its first note to its last.
The band’s recent music is no less catchy but perhaps a bit too polished. Levine and company have become master pop craftsmen — there’s little doubt that a new Maroon 5 song will stick both in your head and on the charts — but their music lacks the sense of adventure that typified this record.
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