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Mix-in' it up: Maroon 5
Christopher Wray-McCann
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How many fans of Maroon 5's polished funk-pop are also into Deerhoof's extraterrestrial indie rock, DJ Premier's boom-bap rap, or Tiësto's monolithic Euro-trance, much less all three? The L.A. quintet makes it work on Call and Response: The Remix Album, letting those unusual suspects — along with hitmakers like Mark Ronson and Pharrell Williams — play with their master tapes. The resulting hit-to-miss ratio is surprisingly high: Few bands make music that's elastic enough to be stretched into so many improbable shapes without losing any snap. B+
Download This: Listen to songs from the new album on the band's MySpace
Posted Dec 03, 2008
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