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Police call it a "Flim Flam" robbery...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Student Loses $200 To `Flim Flam' Robbers | 2/19/1998 | See Source »

HUPD spokesperson Peggy A. McNamara outlined the paradigm that Flim Flam robberies usually follow...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Student Loses $200 To `Flim Flam' Robbers | 2/19/1998 | See Source »

...crimes are usually solvable only if the victim is able to identify the suspects from a line-up, but prosecutors find Flim Flam robberies difficult, said Frank Pasquarello, the Cambridge Police Department's spokesperson...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Student Loses $200 To `Flim Flam' Robbers | 2/19/1998 | See Source »

...album. All the vocals are presumably provided by James himself, but they are all altered to such a degree that he sounds alternately like a little child, a demonic killer and an old man. After the unsettling clamor of the first track, James provides a respite with "Flim," a soft, lilting instrumental which still manages to sound menacing. Perhaps the most interesting track on the album is "Bucephalus Bouncing Ball," which can only be described as the sound of a crazed ball lost somewhere inside a monstrous machine. On some tracks, James lets his considerable pop sensibilities shine through...

Author: By Josiah J. Madigan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Anti-Pop Techno Beaten to Death | 10/24/1997 | See Source »

Unfortunately, melodies have taken a back seat on Come To Daddy. Fans of the dark, spectral soundscapes on James's masterly Selected Ambient Works Volume II will lament the lack of comparable melodic beauty. Slower tracks such as "Flim" don't stand up as well on repeat listens, although they serve as welcome breaks between the aural roar of the louder songs...

Author: By Josiah J. Madigan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Anti-Pop Techno Beaten to Death | 10/24/1997 | See Source »

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