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...deal with God far too young / Before you know it, your life has run away,” the sage 20-year-old cautions, seemingly wistful of her own life’s rapid passing. But after listening to Marling’s latest album, one may end up hoping that, in fact, her musical career has just begun. A gratifying sophomore release from the precocious folk-rock talent, “I Speak Because I Can” endows Marling’s characteristic elegance with a new intensity and an epic, almost theatrical, vigor...
...become / And his soul was seldom higher with the falsities of fun.” But the song gradually intensifies, boasting, at its climax, full choral accompaniment, deep, forceful piano chords, and the dramatic rumble of orchestral percussion. With a switch to a major key near the end, the song’s brooding quality eventually gives way to a lighter tone, but its passion is maintained. The track ends on a truly epic note, as the full choir’s harmony and the percussion’s deep rumblings ascend to a point of almost religious fervor...
...Massacre” as a whole lacks a sense of integration. It appears that almost no attention was paid to the track sequencing, and the songs proceed in a decidedly clunky manner. This is illustrative perhaps of a lack of attention to the overall feel of the album, which ends up seeming like a collection of great songs pushed thoughtlessly together. There is also perhaps a certain hastiness in the way in which “Wu Massacre” has been pushed out for public consumption. The last two songs clearly serve as appalling filler...
This push included turning a 0-11 start into a three-game conference winning streak that left the Crimson in second place in the Hay division at week’s end. Crucial to this stretch has been the stellar play of Harvard’s senior outside hitter, including a team-leading 20-kill performance against Emmanuel last Tuesday and an effort against Newbury on Thursday in which the standout led the squad in both kills (27) and digs...
...team-racing, which is what the format was, there end up being a lot more protests,” Palmer said. “Some events will have on the water judges who will immediately make a call [but] they weren’t able to get enough judges…There were 50 potentially protestable situations…some ended up being irrelevant...