Meds

Performer: Placebo
Artist: Michael Stipe
Producer: Dimitri Tikovoi
Distributor: EMI Music Distribution

Notes: Placebo: Brian Molko. Personnel: W. English rock outfit Placebo have earned themselves a cozy niche on the new millennium Britpop map with their combination of moody, edgy guitar sounds, post-grunge punch, and theatrical flair. MEDS, Placebo's fifth release, finds the band refining the best qualities of their previous albums into a stylish, streamlined whole that shows them moving forward and maturing. "Fall Into You" blends punky energy with emo-tinged confessional expression, a sound that links Placebo to many early-2000s bands, but maintains a distinctive edge. Placebo know their rock history, drawing on driving post-punk a la Joy Division ("Song to Say Goodbye") and moody Cure-influenced tunes ("Follow the Cops Back Home"), but it's on nervous, anthemic rockers like "Infra-Red" that the band is at their best.

Rolling Stone (p.69) - 3 stars out of 4 -- "Brian Molko's witty self-deprecation and heartfelt choruses make for a stylized darkness with a power-pop spirit." Kerrang (Magazine) (p.53) - "[T]his repaints Molko as a torch singer for the 21st century." Mojo (Publisher) (p.108) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he sound is neat, unblended Placebo, particularly on the stand-out track 'Infra-Red'..."

The three founding members of Placebo hailed from Belgium, Sweden, and Switzerland, but their sound was British through and through, a mix of angst-ridden Cure-esque post-punk and glammy art rock a la Bowie. Amid the success of their early albums in the 1990s, they made no secret of their roots, crossing paths with Bowie more than once, covering T. Rex, and appearing in the glam-rock homage VELVET GOLDMINE. However, as album followed album in the '00s, like Bowie, the band expanded beyond its original universe, developing its own brand of darkly majestic, thoroughly neurotic pop.

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