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...guitar-driven tracks avoid becoming overbearing by merit of the piano ballads and simpler tracks sprinkled throughout the album. “Inland Sea” stands out for its ability to balance a laid-back rhythm with still complex instrumentation. Equipped with a bright introduction and a catchy chorus, the track “Fields of Coal” is proof that the spirit of straight-out rock is still with Trail of Dead. The album is rounded off by the folksy and acoustic “Luna Park.” The record as a whole works like...
...about Morrissey’s new CD, no matter how bad you know it is. Every song seems to have a few bars that hit it just right, as if the old Smiths star shines through the fat every now and then. One of the high points is the chorus of “That’s How People Grow Up,” where Morrissey’s tenor tremors in sync with the sinister riffs. “Throwing My Arms Around Paris” is the one track that makes good use of lyrical pretension...
...tell from the hooks. Produced by Greg Kurstin of the retro-pop duo the Bird and the Bee, the music robs every genre it can in the pursuit of anything that might stick in your ears. There's a klezmer-inspired accordion that morphs into a glossy Abba-worthy chorus on "Never Gonna Happen" and an intro that sounds like an electronic version of "Rawhide" on "Not Fair," all of which succeeds in creating enough of a melodic diversion to make you forget that the songs are split-timed and almost mechanically verse-chorus-verse...
...Girl." "Not Fair" laments that her otherwise excellent boyfriend is lousy in bed ("I look into your eyes, I want to get to know yer/ And then you make this noise and it's apparent it's all over") but advances from slagging wit to real disappointment in the chorus...
...trade policymakers, a resonant message from the recent World Economic Forum conference in Davos, Switzerland, was the need to guard against protectionism amid the global financial crisis. Indian Trade Minister Kamal Nath led a chorus of Davos voices warning that governments, desperate for measures to preserve their slumping domestic industries, might move to restrict imports to ease competitive pressures - a formula that in the past has only exacerbated economic downturns by sparking commerce-killing trade wars...