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...Lynnfield Pioneers approach their craft with a less-skill-is-more attitude. None of the members stands out as a particularly gifted musician. The songs are simple: no odd meters or complex chord changes. Only the drummer, the most talented musician in the group, tries to play anything at all complex. But his hubris is evident as he foils many fills and distracts the listener from the flow of the music. Even without much skill, he and the rest of the band play with an in-your-face aggressiveness that overshadows their lack of technical prowess. Although balanced...
...contemptuous of compromise, almost of humanity, and his rebirth in a land where each desolation dissolves in beatific smiles. It is about a solitary star, trussed in celebrity, who learns how to be a team player. This motif, of fame as a badge and as a burden, struck a chord in Annaud's lead player. "I loved," the director says, "that Brad understood what it was really about." The film, then, is the partial autobiography of its begetters: Harrer, Annaud and Pitt...
...album YES!!, perky indie-pop superstar-in-his-own-mind Chris Knox comes up with creative, energetic ways to explore mediocrity as an art form unto itself. Rather than seek out new musical territory, Knox revels in cliched, annoying formulas slapped together to form a pastiche of generic major chord mayhem. YES!! does succeed in pushing limits--for instance, those of compact disc space capacity. Knox man-ages to pack more than 70 minutes of his special brand of grating, '80s-obsessed, painfully simplistic pop stylings onto a single disc...
...musical sketch rather than the typical plot of verse-chorus-verse, and studio effects enhance her ability to create the haunting atmosphere that she does on tracks like "Box." A swirling guitar echoes distantly in the background while the bass and another guitar play a repeated two chord motif. The drums play a simple beat with a closed hi-hat and Deal's voice is laced with reverb...
...rest of the set was remarkably solid, even as The Kelley Deal 6000 negotiated some of their songs' more complex passages. The band set aside three chord convention for a more multi-layered style. Although influences of R&B, Black Sabbath and, yes, The Breeders came through, the song writing was strikingly original. However, some of the songs sounded half-finished and left the listener expecting another chorus or a bridge...