Word: caged
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...Pomona defense remained solid, preventing the Crimson from capitalizing on its numerous opportunities.“Our defense was good,” Garcia said. “Any other game where we only allow three goals is good.”Senior Robbie Burmeister was in the cage for Harvard, but despite his valiant effort in goal to keep the game close—and his seven saves—the Crimson could not edge out the Hens.“Our offense wasn’t moving,” Voith said. “We were playing...
This isn’t to say that he’s not good at it (he is), but his unpredictable intensity is missing. Cage has gone from sampling Wu-Tang on his last album to quoting the Smashing Pumpkins: “Despite all my rage/ I’m a rat in a cage/The skies communicate to love, injecting bleach in my eyes?...
...Cage is violent on the mic, and he does violence well. So his choice, on his newest album “Hell’s Winter,” to steer clear of his mental gold mine of lyrical ultraviolence is confusing. He sounds uncomfortable wading into unfamiliar waters. “Hell’s Winter”, the follow-up to 2002’s titular paradox “Movies for the Blind,” is a move away from the gleeful aggression that has characterized his earlier work. Instead he steps into the well-worn...
Though the tracks are glossy, and expertly tweaked, Cage sometimes sounds uncomfortable over their finished perfection. On “Too Heavy For Cherubs,” while recalling an abusive childhood, he sounds like he’s restraining himself from exploding out of the lazy Blockhead beat; you can almost hear him chomping on the bit shoved in his mouth. “Movies for the Blind” had a low-fi feel that his rabid delivery finds easier to inhabit...
Maybe he’s growing up, or maybe the superstar producers weren’t so keen about his more visceral fare; either way Cage has definitely changed. Though the album kicks off with a hard-hitting ode to New York City, Cage quickly turns reflective, and from there, skitters off into the masturbatory pleasure of self-analysis and the accompanying big complicated words...