Word: dronings
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...fingers of those in search of one-word solutions. As integral as the ethics of electronica may be for Gonzales, who records as M83, many of the artist’s finest moments draw heavily on the warped guitar-pressure of early British shoegaze or the Zen-like drone of ambient post-rock. The truth of this notion holds firm on M83’s fifth album, the dreamlike “Saturdays=Youth,” whose simultaneously sunny and spacey atmospheres buoy the album to stunning highs.Throughout the album, Gonzales hints at some sort of dramatic theme underlying...
...lines are literally punctuated by sighs. Strings swell to the song’s climax, piano tinkles in the background, and the whole song seems to swoon. In this same vein, the Yo La Tengo-esque “My Favorite Year,” with its pulsating drone, high-pitched echoes, and swirling piano, proves that Bejar can still write a six-minute epic that doesn’t sound a second too long.Closing track “Libby’s Sunrise”—a blemish on an otherwise pristine album—illustrates...
This spring break, over reading for which the due date had come and gone, I noticed the drone of parental concern. The silence was eventually breached in the middle of a Heidegger session: “Are you having any fun over there?” I told them “yes,” again—phenomenology is fun. But, really, where would I be without the uncompromising contingent of the “chill” I felt comfortable presenting to our future applicant? Probably at Lamont—so I can’t help...
...album if they weren’t hiding behind a wall of sound. Until the a cappella opening of “Too Drunk to Dream,” the feedback is unrelenting, and despite the highs and lows, the album as a whole tends to drone. This may have worked flawlessly if the year was 1991, and the album was called “Loveless,” but My Bloody Valentine they most certainly are not.Grievances of experimentation aside, Merritt and company have put together a strong collection of songs. “Distortion” not only...
...that U.S. troops would not be allowed to conduct operations on Pakistani soil. Last month the President said in an interview with Singaporean newspaper The Straits Times that U.S. troops would be considered "invaders" if they crossed the border in the pursuit of al-Qaeda militants. However, similar Predator drone attacks in the area seem to indicate a certain level of cooperation between Pakistani and U.S. intelligence. In January of 2006, a botched American air strike in the town of Damadola, meant to take out al-Qaeda number two Ayman al Zawahiri, killed his son-in-law and some...