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The stronger of the new records is Wide Awake, which is mostly acoustic songs sung in Oberst's quivering man-child breaths. On his previous albums, Oberst reached impatiently for any instrument lying around the studio (one track opened with him asking, "Can I get a goddamn timpani roll?"). Here...
If Wide Awake is an example of the circumstances in which Oberst can be great, Digital Ash proves how fleeting those circumstances are. The lyrics on Digital Ash remain models of thoughtful despair, but the acoustic warmth is replaced by a series of unremarkable synthetic burps and tinny keyboard riffs...
How soft? The songs were inspired by the birth of Heinegg’s daughter, and much of these tender emotions are unveiled with simple melodic acoustic guitar and vocal solos in gently titled songs such as “Sway” and “La Belle Dame...
Self-billed creators of “emotionally charged acoustic groove” The Soupbone Throne join Laura Glyda Band in their first show with fifth member Kate Forsdick. OSB and Hooker Street Band support. $8. 18+. 9 p.m. Upstairs at the Middle East. (MFK)
This advice comes not because engaging in this pseudo-scam might ruin your credit or irritate your friends (which it will), but because the iPod is an elitist, antisocial device that provokes the kind of class divisions of which only Karl Marx would approve. The campus is already divided between...