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...Black beans??sure to keep you up all night...
Tomorrow Right Now is a strange collage of spoken word, lo-fi electronic beats and startling dissonances, refusing to be mainstream in any sense. At once the most impressive and the most alienating feature of the album is Beans?? lyrics, which are undeniably virtuosic but delivered in stuttering, robot-like fashion. They’re highly poetic—Beans has actually been published as a poet—but the lyrics sound too conscious of their own literacy, which robs the music of much of its emotional impact. He often sounds like he’s rushing...
...menu is American in the main, freshened up by Italian and Mexican accents and one or two playfully errant Oriental items (Vietnamese spring rolls, Thai crispy noodles). We start with sesame-crusted scallops with “My Favorite Stir Fry Green Beans?? ($12), a rather pointless dish, ineptly executed. The scallops are parched and petrified by over-zealous heat, and the beans make a dubious accompaniment, sitting forlornly in a thin gingery broth. The other starter, however, is sensibly composed—the slick fatty warmth of grilled duck sausage and bruschetta slathered with...
...options for non-sushi eaters. Vegetable tempura is a large appetizer of crisply-fried produce, among which the eggplant and asparagus were particularly notable. There are skewers of tender marinated teriyaki beef and deep-fried shrimp, perfect for the faint-of-heart. And dishes of hot plentiful edamame beans??so heavily salted that they resemble an organic version of Fritos—make the perfect accompaniment to the range of sake or the excellent dry Pinot Grigio ($22) offered...
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