Word: capella
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...performance in Loker if its not a capella,” Micah N. Fitzerman-Blue ’05 said...
Tunde Adebimpe’s distinctively shiny voice, combined with the hypnotic falsetto chiming of Kyp Malone, is what makes this record so unique. The music, looping beats and random instrumental coloring, plays background to the luscious vocal harmonies. A capella love song “Ambulance” is positively entrancing as the duo sing on hauntingly syncopated beats over the constant bounce of backing bass...
...only part that really sticks out is the a capella breakdown in “We Fenced Other Gardens With the Bones of Our Own,” which is the best song on the album until it gets turned into a go-nowhere instrumental, at which point the arrow that drove the first two thirds forward gets lost in a stuffy kind of sandbox and everything becomes horrible...
...synth, unexpected drum machine beats, interweaving vocal lines and stupid lyrics they probably regard as esoteric make it seem they might be trying too hard to capture this sound. Take for example “Trunk of My Car,” which starts out in a ghastly a capella round with lyrics awful enough to match. The two-minute “In Green” is the best track on the album, and only because it sounds like a lot of other better bands, distorted vocals bopping up and down a melodic line with falsetto...
While we wait for Harvard’s brimming endowment to slowly trickle down, the very least the college owes us is a cheaper a capella concert. I’m tired of paying seven dollars per ticket while the Fallen Angels put on a show down the hall for free. ArtsPlus will place funding discretion for arts performances where it belongs: in the hands of the students...