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...little less of the DIY power that lent their longs such urgency back then. While 2002’s stunning Tallahassee finally made the Mountain Goats’ incomparable songwriting accessible, on the recently-released We Shall All Be Healed, songwriter John Darnielle tiredly rehashes concepts, playing the same guitar lines he’s stuck to his entire musical career. And though every old-time Mountain Goats fan will want to blame the professional major-label recording, this lackluster release’s flaws have nothing to do with that...
...known to indulge in more artistic pursuits, especially when they are, as Hamm delicately puts it, “hammered on a school night.” The boys often lapse into jam sessions, always including Hamm on harmonica and Brendan D. B. Hodge ’07 on guitar. But one night, when all rooms were occupied, the boys faced a choice: jam in the bathroom, or try their hand at street performing...
Muldoon tells Xuan about his daytime occupation playing guitar at the Downtown Crossing T stop. “The other day a girl showed me her boobs. It just happens...
...sound of “Thoia Thoing” to the infectious Arabian flutes of “Snake,” Kels has more flavors than an ice cream truck. On “Fiesta remix,” he began his fruitful love affair with the Spanish guitar, which biographer Rob Marriott describes as “R’s equivalent to Muhammad Ali’s phantom punch, a light touch capable of knocking a body out.” But while fame and fortune have allowed him to jet set around the world, Kelly never...
...well as the gothic-esque “My Favorite Things” and “Silent Night.” But these songs are in every way inferior to the album’s opener and apex, “Great Ghosts,” a guitar lullaby about exile, return and surrender that should be the Microphone’s swan song. Typically, tentatively, Elvrum howls: “As you can see / having descended the hill / I still look like me / I still wallow like Phil, and forever will.” The luminous ghosts...