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ECHO co-president Christina Kalan '95 agreesthat it all depends on how a student approachesthe numbers...
Helium is a Cambridge-based band; its nucleus is singer/guitarist Mary Timony (who used to be in Autoclave with Christina Billotte of Slant 6), and their every-three-weeks-or-so-for-two-years schedule of gigs has built them a startlingly big live following. It's "normal," or used to be normal, for new bands to write "difficult" songs and to gradually drop them in favor of poppier, clearer numbers...
...There are broader societal pressures woman might feel in general such as what they're supposed to look like and be like in terms of parenting and that whole realm," said Christina S. Griffith, assistant dean of first year students...
...lucky. what remember of "Time Expired," for example, consists of the chorus--"Time expired, violation/It's a fucked-up situation"--and the throbbing five-chord riff that comes before and after it, a riff that's just as unsettled as the f'd-up situation singer Christina Billotte is describing, but that's clear enough for every note to count. "Don't You Ever?" which opens the record, has a similar economy of means, and is similarly stunning: in this case it's the vocal melody, the way the last two vowels get stretched out in "Don't you ever...
...last band Christina Billotte played in was the slightly slower, more complicated Autoclave, whose other guitarist, Mary Timony, is now headed for deserved superstardom in her Boston-based band Helium. The various parts of Autoclave's sound--the instrumental overlaps, the soulfulness, the rapid riff-changing--are now split up among the bands its ex-members have formed: Helium songs are slow and cathartic Slant 6 song are speedy and compact, and Autoclave bassist Nikki Chapman's Rastro! is noisier than either other band. It's fair to say (and it's not a diss on Helium) that Christina Billotte...