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...title track opens the album with a promising and well-layered beat that builds excitingly until a Vocoder voice starts repeating the words “we are human…after all.” Then the same eight measures repeat for the rest of the song and the Vocoder becomes maddeningly annoying. By the time the song ends at just shy of five-and-a-half minutes you’ll be damn glad it’s over...
...second song, “The Prime Time of Your Life,” has a weird crackly, loogie-hocking aspect to the beat that’s unsettling, quirky, and fun. But, again, it’s ruined by that stupid robot voice, this time saying “gonna do it…O.K. now…the prime time of your life.” For the last two-and-a-half minutes (more than half the track) it just devolves into an unexciting drone. Several of the songs on the album display this kind of depressing...
...that really bothered me, though, is the hateful “Robot Rock.” The beat has this horrible riff that sounds like it came off the most annoying effect on the keyboards in your Long Island high school’s bootleg “piano lab.” It’s this kind of aural insult that led fans to accuse the prerelease leakings of the album to be the work of imposter hacks...
...Bears struck first when senior midfielder Chris Mucciolo beat tri-captain midfielder Doug Kocis and scored with a diving shot. Senior midfielder George Bassett tallied soon after with a high shot through the defense, and junior midfielder Kyle Wailes made it 3-0 less than a minute later when he snuck in behind the defense while the Crimson was playing man-down...
...both teams struggled to maintain possession of the ball as well as their footing in the rainy—and occasionally snowy—conditions, Harvard finally got on the board in the third quarter when junior midfielder Jake Samuelson dodged right to beat his defender and bounced a shot past the goalie...