Word: bandness
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...dream / And our love will make it real someday.” Throughout the album, Springsteen largely alternates between getting his rock on and slowing down for a softer feel. Like on Springsteen’s previous album “Magic,” the E Street Band is much more prevalent and fleshes out the songs, giving them an epic quality, like on the dark and eight-minute long opener “Outlaw Pete,” a harrowing western tale about a man unable to escape his past. While their presence is well felt, one thing...
...occasionally brilliant pop songs out of hastily-rendered foundations of rock, folk, trance and psychedelic music. Oscillating between the creative controls of the respective halves of its founding duo, David “Avey Tare” Portner and Noah “Panda Bear” Lennox, the band matured from a cabal of electronic-noise anarchists into fully-fledged experimental-pop pioneers. The subject matter of their songs tended usually (and, in light of lyrical choice, thankfully) toward the uncertain, but generally shared a thematic convergence of childlike awe, exuberance, and ecstatic joy propelled by a fascination with...
...make some sort of contact with the band to see when they are available,” said Kevin M. Mee ’10, the CEB’s newly elected chairman...
...straightforward dance-rock, they substitute the catchy choruses for musing, fuzzy electro-noodlings. The first half of the album is much better than the second. The second half’s main problem lies in some of the songs’ repetitiveness and slow pace. One would wish the band had been able to come up with tunes worth humming. The chilled out ending of“Lucid Dreams” slows the album down; it never recovers. The next song, “Dream Again,” is even slower, melodically unremarkable, and serves only as a transition...
...fake plastic guitar is the outfit my stupid pixellated avatar is wearing while spasmodically strumming his fake virtual guitar. I also care very little about aptly named Hoobastank; no surprise, then, that in the video for their new single “My Turn,” the band members seize upon a video game motif to play dress-up to no end. The video has Hoobastank and their gear sitting atop what appears to be a giant spinning hockey puck, because, with the current state of the NHL, pucks gotta take work where they can get it. Meanwhile, blindingly...