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...indie rock. Shake the Sheets is another album from an artist who has perfected his unique sound and sticks to it.The band hits their stride in the middle of the album. Relying for the most part on a simple lineup of drums, bass, guitar and Leo’s dextrous vocals, the Pharmacists produce sweet, hummable melodies that seem to defy any quick guess as to their age—they don’t seem to belong in the present, nor do they line up with any epoch of rock’s past. “Counting Down...
...entirely unpredictable battle-rhyme on “F. H. H.” (discreet for “Fuck Hip Hop,” surprisingly). But it is on “June” with MC Copywrite that RJD2 demonstrates that not only can he back a dextrous rapper, he can steal the show back again. The dense, shifting atmospherics range from mournful guitar noodlings to the everpresent bass/high-hat tussle that comes forcefully to the fore on “The Chicken-Bone Circuit...
...happened last week, midway through the performance of Ricky Jay & His 52 Assistants, a dextrous, funny and entirely elegant revue of card conjuring at an off-Broadway theater in Manhattan. The missing card, boldly marked and closely watched, appeared -- after several comic digressions -- in a totally unexpected place that only a master manipulator can navigate (and that would be wrong to divulge here...
...record is its love songs, whether religious (So Help Me God), romantic (If I Could) or street savvy (the nifty Love Has a Mind of Its Own). To ensure, however, that the genius has not gone soft of heart or of social conscience, he finishes up with a dextrous cover of Still Crazy After All These Years. As he skims over Paul Simon's elegant lines of predawn rumination, Charles sounds bluesy and bemused, crazy with a vengeance and a purpose. "Yeah, baby," he growls, "you got me by your little finger," and so he's got us, just...
...through the Dorset flora and fauna includes side trips into the thickets of political and social theory. He announces his presence at every plot turn-probing his characters' thoughts on one page, shrugging genially that he's no mind reader on the next. And finally, this most dextrous of card sharks trumps his story. He provides three contradictory endings to his tale: in the first, Charles marries his fiancée, in the second Charles and Sarah are blissfully reconciled, in the third they part, never to see each other again...