Word: freeform
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...rhythmic loops. The light-heartedness of the instrumentation makes the pathos inherent in Vernon’s voice less grounded, resulting in a track that is simultaneously light and catchy yet deep and moving. The album emerges an intriguing and surprising experiment. Several of the songs are so freeform that they progress along an undetermined path, ending with little resolution or warning. The opening track, “Husks and Shells,” begins with acoustic guitars tuning and warming up in the distance. Eventually, the guitars settle on a melody, but never on a rhythm, and the melody...
...rest can’t even qualify as wild and freeform noise-rock because even though it goes nowhere and carries no trace of direction or heart, it’s still completely linear, structured and claustrophobic...
...sure—Harvard’s conservative music scene had little to do with it. As a first-year looking for a creative outlet, Clayton was immediately disillusioned by WHRB’s top-down hierarchy and retreated to MIT’s comparatively freeform radio station, WMBR. “I was playing what I loved. It was the total opposite of WHRB, where you have to fit these pre-slotted categories and it’s under their full control,” he says...
...Other top items on the to-do list: tightening access to the FBI's classified computer databases to prevent Hanssen-like freeform browsing. Already FBI director Bob Mueller has ordered up a full array of software safeguards, many of which hinge on the completion of the bureau's massively expensive Trilogy project, an information systems overhaul scheduled to go on line over the next several years. But Ken Senser, the assistant director for security, is moving faster: he has installed safeguards designed to pick up on activities as blatant as Hanssen's habit of running his name and spook slang...
...return to the chorus at the end. The vocals in many of the tracks make this somewhat more of a commercial compilation, but most of the samples are fresh and interesting, even if the accents take some getting used to. The best song on the album is the Freeform Five remix of “Tim Huttons Colours,” with its Cuban percussion and beautiful melody. As a mix, this album is interesting and varied. It doesn’t have the American club hits to make it a sure commercial success, but most of the songs that...