A.V. Club: Best of the Decade

Artist Telekinesis

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Despite the efforts of Levon Helm and Grant Hart, the singing drummer remains a dubious prospect. (Blame it on the Henley?) Count among those efforts the crunchy, hummable songs of Benjamin Michael Lerner, whose band Telekinesis recently made the transition from one-man studio project to full-fledged power-pop unit. The band’s Merge debut, Telekinesis!, finds Lerner daydreaming about Tokyo and getting nostalgic for days spent in sandboxes, but he keeps himself grounded in power chords and catchy little choruses, which get a glossy FM radio sheen from producer Chris Walla.

Updated 06/04/2009

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