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...Bucket, a profile of Dubya's Texas (the works are on exhibit at Tate Britain in London until Dec. 23). And a show at Tate Modern on London's South Bank, "Time Zones: Recent Film and Video" (through Jan. 2.), draws from the best international artists, all exploring the concept of time. In Untitled (Bangkok), Serb Bojan Sarcevic walks the alleys of the Thai capital, showing that the journey, not the arrival, matters. In Indonesia-born Fiona Tan's Rain, two blue plastic buckets never quite get filled by a monsoon. It's a symbol of futility, like emptying...
...Grand... was not the only fantastic concept album to emerge from 2004, but joined an album released by brother-sister duo the Fiery Furnaces, Blueberry Boat, in this distinction. Blueberry Boat was a kaleidoscopic thrill ride across a fantasy psychedelic world, reminiscent of the sadly-missed Elephant 6 collective. The next album from the Furnaces will surely be one of the next year’s most anticipated follow...
...Doubt’s Tragic Kingdom came out when I was in sixth grade, and it was one of my earliest CD purchases. Simultaneously an addictive pop album and an interesting if not terribly coherent concept piece, it still pops up in my playlist from time to time...
...with, or perhaps because of, their lack of previous contact, they complemented each other perfectly. According to Lawler, “the writing went really smoothly. We work really well together.” The co-writers were aided and guided by a shared philosophy; “The concept was just to create something people would have a great time...
Another concern all three bring up as central to their work is the discrepancy between perception and reality. “We talk a lot about the difference between concepts of experience and reality of experience,” Carlin says, a discrepancy which Steele describes as the “rupture between percept and concept...