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...Leadman Kevin Barnes sings, “I spent the winter on the verge of a total breakdown while living in Norway” over an irrepressible synth, making it impossible to decide whether to dance or to cry. Most of the album consists of catchy drum machine beats and happy electronic melodies. However the album’s turning point, “The Past Is a Grotesque Animal,” is repetitive and almost 12 minutes long. The songs afterward are darker, but slowly return to the album’s original sweetness. Listening...
...bottling the lightning of blogger authenticity is not easy. Many blogosphere activists suspect anyone signing on with a campaign of selling out. And in the era of drum-tight message control, campaigns are not inclined to tolerate the independence bloggers need to maintain their credibility...
...TIME: In Flags of Our Fathers, the young servicemen depicted in the famous flag-raising photograph are sent on a bond tour to drum up money and popularity for the war. It's a pretty unsavory look at how the war was sold to the American public. Do you see a parallel to any modern-day wars here...
...Drum-tensioning device: Two years before he died, Brando filed for a patent on a way of adjusting the tuning on a drum. He coulda been an inventor...
...Wagnerian pomp and sonic drive. In this great set, arranger Jack Nitzsche smartly attaches vamps from RB (Sleigh Ride's "ringa-linga-linga-ding-dong-ding") and the Big Band era to the Christmas hits of the previous two decades (no spirituals here) and supplements the tambourine-and-drum pulse of the Spector sound with chimes, sleigh bells and a million maracas. The Crystals' propulsive version of "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" might be my favorite Christmas song ever. This is a meticulous Christmas album: you'll hear rarely used intros and second choruses to go along with...