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...Beam’s soothingly repetitive acoustic guitar licks and his wispy vocals affirm the record’s Iron & Wine identity. Woman King is laced with elegant subtlety, clever word play, powerful emotion and all the other goodies that pulled Beam so quickly from his basement recording studio into the indie limelight. The solidly composed title track, “Woman King,” abounds with precise rhythms and haunting poetry. In the singular lament, “My Lady’s House,” Beam taps into emotional wavelengths à la Nick Drake...
...were born to fuck each other one way or another,” Woman King clearly pushes the limits of Beam’s established (if that word can be used to describe a career of under three years) raspy and understated style. The distorted guitar in “Evening on the Ground” and the slick bass line of “Freedom Hangs Like Heaven” lend these songs a simply bad-ass vibe. Packing a punch and a twang, these songs may cause dancing, foot tapping and other reactions not normally associated with...
Sunday, March 6. Celebrity Series of Boston: Los Angeles Guitar Quartet with Colin Currie. 3 p.m., Sanders Theater. Tickets: $33-48; student rush $20 cash half an hour before the show. Tickets available at the Harvard Box Office...
...Guitar manipulator Omar Rodriguez, co-frontman of the Mars Volta, swears that their new album, Frances The Mute, was completed without any needles, pipes, or bottles. This may be a rock and roll first...
...level of permutations in its sound along with the variety of its genre affiliations. The roots for the template Rodriguez and Bixler currently employ can be found on At The Drive In’s records—namely, Rodriguez’s off-the-hinges screeching and squalid guitar-wanking—without really hinting at the more drastic experimentations the two would soon dabble...