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...HSM3, the choreography (by Ortega, Charles Klapow and Bonnie Story) has some of Astaire's formal inventiveness. As Gabriella sings the separation ballad Walk Away, as she leaves her house to head for an early course at Stanford, pictures on the wall slowly disappear to suggest that the life she's leaving behind may have been just a sweet dream. In Troy's separation song, Scream, his world goes literally topsy-turvy, rotating like the room whose walls and ceiling Astaire danced on in Royal Wedding. For Fred it was a lark; for Troy, the agony of a kid having...
...Love and Theft,’” and for a lesser collection it would seem impossible to match that song’s first moments. But Dylan succeeds in more unexpected ways as the album unfolds. Both versions of the gospel ballad “Dignity” manage to be moving, yet distinct from the other in arrangement and lyrical delivery. “God Knows,” an “Oh Mercy” outtake, harks back to the more propulsive, Hawks-driven days of Dylan’s 1960s height. More traditional outings...
...Chinese folk music, but the playful melodies are rooted in pop. The fluttering female voices on "Heavenly Peach Banquet" resolve as the la-la-la-la-las from Minnie Ripperton's "Lovin' You." "Iron Rod" sounds like R2-D2 rapping on a dance floor. "The Living Sea" is a ballad of such delicacy that it feels like a love song in any language. The music does a fair job of telling Monkey's story, but that's far less interesting than the ambition on display and the effortless integration of different traditions...
...Night Falls,” which, along with “Saint Isabelle” is one of the few non-political songs on the album, could be a sweet ballad if its lyrics weren’t so generic and basic...
...norm and boldly declares “I can live with God and with suicide.” “Black River Killer,” probably the strongest song on the album, tells a harrowing story of a serial-killer cowboy. Assuming something of the murder ballad form, Earley tackles the spiritual consequences of murder and guilt. The evocative lyrics showcase Earley in his most poetic form as he describes the first murder: “They found the girl’s body in an open pit / Her mouth was sewn shut, but her eyes were still...