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...album begins with “The Code,” a fuzzy and futuristic spoken-word track. Toward its end a melody enters, melting into the album’s first real song, “Dream About the Future.” The track opens with a piano meditation on the same two chords, layered with drums, the band’s characteristic synthesizer, and quirky sound effects. Frontman Schneider soon interjects, “When I tell you that I need you / You don’t believe me.” Achingly whiny and painfully clich?...
...frustrating, simply repeating the chorus’ two lines at the track’s end, layering one line upon the other without much tonal or vocal variation. One song, however, does break from this monotony. “Dance Floor,” the album’s first single, succeeds in shaping for itself a dramatic arch. About two minutes in, it crescendos, followed by a lull that accentuates this change. The track also boasts an interesting rhythm, one with a sense of momentum brought on by the Apples’ careful use of enjambment...
...film begins as a simple appraisal of street art, via the shaky lens of the camera-obsessed Guetta. He first trawls the streets of Paris, and then L.A., becoming the accomplice of numerous street artists. Guetta films almost every second of their work—the documentary is intense and fast-paced, twisting around every corner to capture a different artist at work: Shepard Fairey, Andre, Zeus, and Space Invader, to name...
...irony in this exhibitionist charade, despite the 4,000 people pouring through the doors on the first day alone, is the lack of ground-breaking inspiration in any of MBW’s work. His pieces are unoriginal. They resemble and imitate all of the work he has spent hours filming and abetting. Or, as Banksy himself states in the film, Guetta “repeated things until they became meaningless,” but through a careful marketing strategy he was able to package the street-art aesthetic, and to sell it. Essentially, Guetta cheated street art; he seized...
...Until that happens, Sandhurst is overseeing a production line of officers who must expect to be plunged quickly into the complexities of modern missions. Captain Matt Woodward left Sandhurst in April 2002, and deployed to Iraq the following year. "On my first tour my squadron leader was 50 miles away from me," he says. "I was running a town of 40,000 on my own with a troop of 16 people. I went to Iraq with some armored vehicles and they said, 'Right, here's your town. There's a police force here that's largely ineffective, there...