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...middle of this year’s service, the choir director’s daughter stepped on stage to sing “Emmanuel,” a drudging ballad of a hymn that I had never heard of before, and as soon as she released the first note, it was very clear that the song was going to be unfortunate. She was terrible. Not voice-cracking, not squeaky—there was nothing particularly notable about how bad her voice was, but it was bad in an off-pitch, out-of-key, YouTube-funny...
...follows suit, sweeping the listener along in a daze. “Used to Be,” a rerecorded version of the track that first appeared on a 2008 single release, exemplifies this fuller sound unique to “Teen Dream.” An upbeat piano ballad of sorts, its poetic unanswered questions address the pangs of growing apart. On this and other tracks, the emotional core of the song is consistently detectable on the surface. Beach House’s music has matured and it shows...
...Your Money” is the sleek slow-burner Daniel has been trying to write for years, with its midway shift from bass to guitar creating the album’s sublime peak. Even the least thrilling tracks on “Transference”—piano ballad “Goodnight Laura” and the meandering, bass-heavy “Nobody Gets Me But You”—are unmistakably the work of seasoned veterans. At a point in their career where a merely adequate post-breakthrough record would suffice...
...Contra” is not, however, a carbon copy of its predecessor. “Taxi Cab” is the group’s first real ballad, a beautiful baroque affair featuring endearingly uncertain romantic lyrics: “You stood so close to me / Like the future was supposed to be.” “Giving Up The Gun” is the biggest step forward for the band’s songwriting skills and possibly the best song on the LP. It is also one of the darkest and most direct songs the group...
Harris-Moore, 6 ft. 5 in. (1.96 m), has become a legend in the Pacific Northwest - T-shirts bearing his face or the words "Fly, Colton, fly" are big sellers in Seattle - and on the Internet. His Facebook fan club has 8,000 members, and a hokey ballad on YouTube sings his praises. Harris-Moore's supporters see a deeper meaning to his popularity: During hard economic times, they say, why not celebrate a poor boy who robs from the island vacation homes of Seattle's dotcom gazillionaires? But Harris-Moore apparently steals just as often from Camano's ordinary...