Word: crescendoe
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...here unfold at a tempered pace; the songs take their time, but the process is by no means leisurely. Instead, tension builds as the sound expands, often reaching pitches of dizzying intensity. “Auto Rock,” the album’s opener, constructs a steady crescendo around a spare piano melody, adding fuzzy distortion and a heavy, insistent beat. The result may be melodramatic, but it’s also nothing less than beautiful...
...TOOK A FLYING WEDGE OF PREACHERS AND SANITATION WORKERS to guide King's party into the cavernous Mason Temple through crowded aisles and a pulsing crescendo of cheers. Against all fire codes, some spectators climbed high into rafters from which was suspended a giant white banner with a Bible quote from Zechariah: NOT BY MIGHT, NOR BY POWER, SAITH THE LORD OF HOSTS, BUT BY MY SPIRIT. The platform below teemed with dignitaries plus three stately new garbage cans filled with donations. When King in his blue suit reached the bank of microphones, the noise receded no lower than...
...Geils Band, but there ain’t no centerfold fucking up here,” before heading back into their passionate self-indulgence. They were a modern-day Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters, playing with delay pedals, riffing and rapping their sound into a violent moaning crescendo. Chief Hand convulsed in spasmodic ecstasy on the floor beneath the silver scarf of his tribal flag. “Now the secret’s out…no more secrets,” he whispered, as they handed out new albums to a sated crowd.Finally, after level-checking better...
...title track starts in the bowels of the earth and reaches a perilously high crescendo, tumbling down in a beautiful mess that beats on head and heart like a hammer: a five-minute crystallization of Lightning Bolt’s sound...
...middle-class life archive leisure in unflattering and often awkward photos that are both amusing and relatable, like the best reality TV. News media meets still photography in the “Fine Art Photographers Collection” on the back wall of the gallery. It creates a crescendo across the wall of color and technical advancements in print-making but it is too wide to really incite appreciation as a grouping of photographs. Bookended by William Henry Jackson’s 1890 photograph, “Canon of Grand River, Utah” and Alex Webb?...