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...more than the expected one-or-two radio-friendly pop/rock tracks. If in recent years it looked like the Counting Crows were at risk of alienating the cult of listeners who have come to expect the kind of piercing lyrics for which singer Adam Duritz is known, their new album suppresses any fears. “Saturday Nights and Sunday Mornings” is a return to form for the band and features songs that are alternately loud and soft but always introspective and bittersweet. The album is divided into two halves. The first six songs fall under the category...
...summer of 2006, it sounded positively Californian, except edgier than the Beach Boys and possibly more harmonic than The Mamas and the Papas. I was ashamed to be two years late in my discovery, yet at the same time, excited—I figured that their second album was imminent...
...What made this concert unique was that Ambulance LTD wasn’t plugging a new album; they took the stage with a four-year-old debut, without a follow-up sitting out on the merch stand. Nonetheless, at the end of their first song, lead singer Marcus Congleton announced that the following was one of their new ones and that the rest of the night they would play a smattering...
...able to interview lead singer Congleton, who quickly set the record straight. When I asked why a new album had yet to be released, he briefly cited creative issues and then quickly cut to the root of the problem...
...agree with Tyrangiel that R.E.M.'s new album is terrific. But to me, the three preceding albums represent the work of a band that was still growing and maturing. To compare the R.E.M. of a quarter-century ago with the R.E.M. of today makes no more sense than saying the Beatles' Strawberry Fields is inferior to I Want to Hold Your Hand. I admire artists who have the courage to evolve. Debbie Gilbert, Cleveland, Georgia