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...music industry. They are seen as social gadflies who dress black-on-black, talk irreverently all the way through award ceremonies and can't wait to party away all the easy money that accrues from selling low-royalty back catalog CDs to baby boomers replacing their vinyl collections of aural anarchy from the pre-disco era. That is an unfair characterization which covers only 99 percent of the industry...
...with any self-respecting symbol, meaning is often packed into blackboard words to an unusually high degree. Lectures, primarily aural, are nonetheless calcified by these markings on the board; from their transcriptions students can often reconstruct entire verbal arguments. Blackboard scrawlings thus represent an extremely condensed language; no ordinary words, these can be extremely powerful in the context of memory...
...instead found a voice whose terse eloquence resided not only in his exquisite, lapidary phrases but in the silent spaces between them as well. On Blue in Green, the album's third cut, there are passages of such poised stillness that they constitute a sort of aural photograph, a moment perfectly preserved...
Thought the Walkman and Discman were pretty cool in the '80s and '90s? Imagine walking the streets with every tune you own (and quite a few you borrowed) in your pocket, one button push away from total aural bliss...
What seems so strange about the Beautiful South to American listeners is the overriding lack of interest in aural shock. There's no shouting, no distorted guitar noise and rarely an unexpected chord change. Instead, the group's songwriter Paul Heaton rolls out slow, beautiful pop songs backed by melodic tunes that never pretend to be anything but accompaniment. This is not to imply that something is lacking in the music. It is rich, profound and mood-setting-qualities which have made the band's albums bestsellers in their native Britain...