Word: folke
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...album, Sea Change, is also telling of its time, fueled as it is by the kind of regretful, sober sensations that come after the big party has ended. But having reportedly broken up with his long-time girlfriend last year, the man has his personal reasons to sing the folk-country blues that fill Sea Change. It’s heavy and heady stuff for Beck, whose past aversion to sticking to a single genre has often verged on goofy musical schizophrenia. Sanity and focus may be unexpected on a Beck album, but it makes for the most heartfelt...
...album’s lo-fi AM radio feel is nothing new to Beck, who showed his folk muscle previously on 1994’s One Foot in the Grave and on 1997’s more eclectic Mutations, which up until now were his quietest and most beautiful records. But where the folky Beck of yore lamented empty mining towns, the new Beck wails over empty Kleenex boxes. “You got to drive all night / just to feel like you’re ok,” he sings, with the wrinkled voice and lyrics...
...permed secretary. Some students from Dorm Crew put down their mops and Lysol for the evening to distribute drinks and candies with Harvard University Dining Services. Little children got caffeine highs. It’s the sort of family-friendly event Summers seems to be keen on and Harvard folk generally enjoy...
Ethan hates baseball. It's a game in which errors are actually counted, and Ethan is the kind of player who lets easy pop flies drift over his mitt. All the same, Ethan is recruited to head a team being formed by the ferishers, a race of fairy folk who are struggling to prevent Coyote, Chabon's semiappealing Satan figure, from poisoning the waters that nourish the Tree of the World, which holds up the four worlds, which can be magically traversed by scampering around the Tree, which...Let's just say that when it comes to elaborate plotting, Proust...
...doesn't care if her lyrical chicken soup is too trite for Hallmark. On Talk to Her, she reminds men that every woman is "somebody's sister." Slow Down warns against moving too fast with "your hands in the air and your feet on the gas." The music, guitar folk with a dash of hip-hop rhythm, is equally predictable. She makes Jewel seem outrageous...