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...expose the melodies underneath. Merritt’s latest lyrics emerged from the layers of guitar noise to reveal a sincerity and intimacy unheard since “69 Love Songs.” Compared to the pristine, stripped-down acoustic versions, the studio recordings from “Distortion?? sound cluttered and muddy. The band’s earlier material, however, features digital and analogue synthesizers in many of the lead parts. In the absence of electronics, the cello and guitar were left to fill these voids. John Woo, the guitarist, adapted particularly well, using various picking...
...sound that’s inspired by the work of The Jesus and Mary Chain. The similarities with the Chain are limited to the atmosphere, however, and the omnipresent distortion adds merely another interesting twist to songs that dwell in familiar structural and lyrical territory. While “Distortion?? ultimately hesitates to ascend either to the melodic or satiric heights of the Fields’ magnum opus, it presents an innovative new context for Merritt’s smirking brand of indie pop.Album-opener “Three-Way” jumps off with jangling fury, bursting...
...equivalency—exhibited most recently in S. Allen Counter’s comparison of the tactics of the South African apartheid regime to the Harvard University Police Department’s. A meaningfully “international” community would recoil instinctively from such a plainly ignorant distortion??one that imputes the reputation of a murderous regime to police officers who had merely asked students for their IDs, quickly learned that their gathering was legitimate, and let the merriment continue unabated. The comparison is no more intelligent, and every bit as obnoxious, as the National Rifle...
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