Word: crescendoed
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...into more familiar territory and expands his sound in interesting ways. With his guitar growling like a bass and his intense voice snarling coarsely on top of it, Auerbach creates a smoky, back-alley vibe very much like that of a Tom Waits song. The album continues its slow crescendo, building up the intensity through the driving rhythm of “Heartbroken, In Disrepair,” the moodier, organ-driven “Real Desire,” and the raspy, Creedence Clearwater Revival-sounding “Mean Monsoon,” before hitting the album?...
...Palestinian casualties rise - by Sunday over 860 had died in the fighting compared to 13 Israelis - worldwide cries for a ceasefire are reaching a crescendo. But in Israel, nearly everyone supports the war, in large part because every Israeli knows someone who has been called up to fight, or someone who lives within range of Hamas' rockets...
...Then a rousing call to action (crescendo ... starts ... now ...) "All right!" - Gene Hackman in Hoosiers
...then it's obvious what comes next - words of greatness, or at least a flood of generic colloquy delivered while a background orchestra slowly builds to a crescendo. The obligatory inspirational movie speech is a tool used so often that characters, plots, settings and even centuries are virtually interchangeable...
...since. Pitchfork's overwritten-to-the-point-of-meaninglessness reviews make the online publication an easy target (Music blog Idolator used to run a regular "Pick of the Fork" feature in which readers guessed which lines came from a real Pitchfork review and which didn't; "for every bold crescendo, an incongruous tangent can disrupt the music's linearity" was, unfortunately, real) but despite its haughty attitude, the website knows what it's doing. A glowing review from Pitchfork can launch a band onto the college radio charts and beyond - a 9.7 (out of 10) review of Arcade Fire...