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...cries of “baby baby” abound. Of course, even here Hard-Fi fails to completely capture the timbre of their source material; at best, they’re Maroon 3 or 4. It’s not all bad. There are some interesting influences hiding beneath the surface of Hard-Fi’s sound. Their broad sonic palette boasts a wide variety of electronic sounds, and some of the album’s most interesting moments occur when Hard-Fi tries to sound more Daft Punk than Maxïmo Park. But even that doesn?...
...after the story’s central, blood-stained symbol; “My Life as a Fairy Tale” explores the “darker side” of Hans Christian Andersen’s celebrated children’s stories (which, admittedly, never lurked too far beneath the surface anyway). Also unsurprisingly, Merritt’s songwriting creates a biting musical commentary for these stories, pairing sweet voices and upbeat melodies with tragic events and sinister intentions (witness “What a Fucking Lovely Day,” in which a villain remarks on the beauty...
...motives can make life easier." Julie Nicholson will never have that opportunity. Part of the perversity of a suicide bombing is that the murderer dies along with the victims. There is no way to enact the justice that is an essential part of true forgiveness, no chance to dig beneath the logic of hatred to answer the fundamental question: "Why?" Perhaps that will make it impossible for Nicholson ever to forgive. But her decision to resign, like her interview last week, was first and foremost a rare show of honesty. Forgiveness, she reminds us, is not something you can turn...
With the Pell plan, MIT opted not to set an annual income level beneath which the school waives a family’s contribution...
...Case does not cover it so much as pay it homage. Her vocals channel Fitzgerald’s composed intensity, but her lyrics forsake the saccharine literalism of the original for Dylanesque poetic abstraction. She sings: “And if death should smell my freedom as is passes beneath my window / let it leave me trembling at every bell that tolls me.” The track’s simultaneous allusion to and improvement upon tradition is characteristic of Case’s style. “Fox Confessor” also features Case’s interpretation...