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...first track on the album, however, is misleading. “Is There a Ghost,” opens with echoing guitar notes and Bridwell’s voice before picking up the beat and plunging into loud, distorted chords. It’s extremely reminiscent of their most popular track on the first album, “The Funeral”—it’s the sound that made “Everything All the Time” so exciting...
...One’s Gonna Love You” ends up sounding like a cheesy Garth Brooks ballad. “Marry Song” combines a muted organ and lazy drum beat with lyrics like “I’ll marry my lover” in an accent and overall mood that makes you feel like you’re floating down the Mississippi...
Halfway through the album, Band of Horses takes their best shot at compromising between their two conflicting sounds. “The General Specific” takes their songwriting ability and applies it to a barn-burning beat. Even Bridwell seems to be having more fun, taking more risks with his voice...
This past week, WBAI, a public radio station in New York City, was so worried about the FCC’s recent trend of levying astronomically high fines on stations found in violation of obscenity rules that it decided to not air Allen Ginsberg’s epic Beat poem, “Howl.” Ironically, the impetus for the planned broadcast was that it was the 50th anniversary of a ruling that deemed the poem fit for the airwaves. On Oct. 3, 1957, the courts ruled that “Howl” contained...
Lehigh was lucky to beat Harvard in Bethlehem. It’ll take more than luck to grab a ‘W’ in New Haven...