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...painful angle in a crib railing. Oh, the remorse! We practically flagellated ourselves for our negligence. We reverted to getting up several times a night to comfort our infant Caruso. He is now a senior in high school, where he has won several awards for solo and chorus singing. Mark Canter Tallahassee, Florida...
...sound. At his most frightened (Falling Off the Face of the Earth), there's an easy melody and notes of assurance from the impeccably played instruments. And when he contemplates all his choices (The Painter) and wonders if he has got lost, the voices that rise behind in the chorus are so unmistakably warm that you feel certain they will guide him back. Best Tracks: The Painter, When God Made...
...album wonders the Unicorns, to name a few.Two more poppy Frenchmen, Octet, steal the show by recasting bubblegum gem “Girl” as a melodramatic aria, sung at the climax of a new-age murder opera. They cut out all the lead vocals of the chorus, thus negating the longstanding debate over whether our hero is saying “sun-eyed” or “cyanide.” This leaves only the eerily manufactured choir of “aah-aah-aahs.” Then the whole thing descends into breakcore entropy...
...Southern Anthem” was the best example of the merit of this approach for an audience familiar with his recorded material. Lyrical couplets like “Frozen, the river that baptized you/And the horse died standing up” came to the fore, and his gentle chorus hung over the crowd. Beam’s wordless, falsetto harmonizing with his sister Sarah in the middle of the song was hauntingly beautiful on stage.“Faded from the Winter” was the most surprising success, as Beam replaced the driving folk guitar of the recorded version...
...journalists embedded alongside war-time troops who are fighting in the fictional country of Gomorrah (named after a biblical city of sinners; here meant to resemble Iraq). Containing scenes of a cabinet meeting of masked officials shouting “double fuck France,” and a chorus of easily-swayed journalists rocking back and forth to the rhythm of a military official’s speech about his nation’s “can-do spirit,” “Embedded”’s commentary on the Iraq War comes...