Word: crisp
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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FRANCES GUMM Cruella (CD: Landspeed) & NEW RADIANT STORM KING Rival Time (CD: Homestead) An hour west of us, two years ago, there were five colleges, a mental institution, a bunch of small towns, and two new bands with a lot in common: a crisp, visceral punch, a fondness for odd rhythms and offbeats, strained singing, and atonality. (Those aren't "chords" Frances Gumm plays; more like "bunches of notes.") As the two new bands started releasing singles and playing out in New England together, they both got better by sounding less alike...
...noticing its agility: "I want to go bang on every door/And say 'Wake up, you're sleeping through heaven'" has three contrasting riffs buried in it. Your average power-pop singer would give it one at most. Far from being lush or orchestral, Game Theory's sound is always crisp (there's barely any reverb or delay on this entire CD, and when there is, it's a special effect). No matter how thin you slice the songs--down to a single bass riff, or a single chord progression--almost every unit you come up with is not only something...
That's how it's gone for this team, a small, quick, crisp-passing bunch. This fall, the rugby team surprised a lot of observers by just reaching the Connecticut match with a 4-0 record. With a 28-21 win over the Huskies, that record now stands...
...With crisp centering passes form senior forward Sarah Downing on the right side leading the Harvard attack, the Crimson controlled the day's offensive action and fired 23 shots to the Chiefs' nine. On the other side of the field, the Harvard defense blanked Springfield and with strong play from Walton, senior back Deirdre Long, junior sweeper Megan Colligan, and freshman back Daphne Clark, repelled the few Chief attacks...
Picture it. Sliced turkey piled three inches high on an onion roll, with crisp iceberg lettuce and the perfect amount of mayo. And with it, vanilla ice cream and root beer blended perfectly into what Dairy Queen menus like to call a freeze...