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The Cars: Move Like This – review
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Author: Caroline Sulliva
Date: Thu, 05 May 2011 23:20
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<div class="track"><img alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.22.2/39643?ns=guardian&pageName=The+Cars%3A+Move+Like+This+*+review%3AArticle%3A1553642&ch=Music&c3=Guardian&c4=Music%2CCulture%2CPop+and+rock+%28Music+genre%29&c5=Pop+Music%2CNot+commercially+useful&c6Êroline+Sullivan&c7-May-05&c853642&c9=Article&c10=Album+review%2CReview&c11=Music&c13=&c25=&c30=content&h2=GU%2FMusic%2FPop+and+rock" width="1" height="1" /></div><p class="standfirst">(Hear Music)</p><p>The Cars' last burst of glory came in 1985, when the song Drive was used at Live Aid to soundtrack a videomontage of famine victims. They split up a few years later, and leader Ric Ocasek said there was no chance his band – one of America's definitive new-wave outfits, whose brittle synthpop has influenced a good few 21st-century acts – would ever reunite. Inevitably, though, they have. Bassist Benjamin Orr died in 2000, but the other original members are on board, and they've turned out an album that picks up where the last one left off in 1987. As before, the songs find the spot where brash garage-rock and bleepy modernism arrestingly intersect, Ocasek then applies robo-geek vocals, and off they go. Though they engage with 2011 now and then – the jittery Blue Tip concerns the pernicious effect of the media – Move Like This mainly works as a reminder of (or introduction to) their past.</p><p class="rating">Rating: 3/5</p><div class="related" style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;"><ul><li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/popandrock">Pop and rock</a></li></ul></div><div class="author"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/carolinesullivan">Caroline Sullivan</a></div><br/><div class="terms"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk">guardian.co.uk</a> © Guardian News & Media Limited 2011 | Use of this content is subject to our <a href="http://users.guardian.co.uk/help/article/0,,933909,00.html">Terms & Conditions</a> | <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/help/feeds">More Feeds</a></div><p style="clear:both" />
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