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...form for the band and features songs that are alternately loud and soft but always introspective and bittersweet. The album is divided into two halves. The first six songs fall under the category of “Saturday Nights” and contain up-tempo beats and driving guitar riffs. The last eight songs, belonging to “Sunday Mornings,” have an acoustic, folk-inspired sound. When considered as a whole, the two halves form a distinctive album that is about partying with abandon in one moment and picking up the pieces of your life...
...However, I completely disagree with the chart that deems Monster below respectable. Following Automatic for the People, R.E.M. ran the risk of falling into a rut. After two similar-sounding albums, what would its members do next? Their willingness to completely change their sound from mandolins to gutsy electric guitar helped establish R.E.M. as a group not afraid to challenge expectations. It is good to see in their new album that they are willing to do it again. Henry Rosenberg, South Windsor, Connecticut...
...have my stock answer: my twin sister Anabel is awesome. She is the cool twin (it’s true, ask my parents)—my filmmaking, screenwriting, guitar-strumming, record-producing sibling...
...obey a sort of invisible rock template, a self-conscious mechanism that mindlessly plugs in choruses, verses, hooks and solos, but never seems to be aware of what makes any of those things work together. The album plods along on autopilot for six straight tracks of virtually indistinguishable twin-guitar artillery, with doses of horn flourish applied intermittently in a futile attempt to enliven the record’s blandness. “The Switch and the Spur,” “Hold Up,” and “Top Yourself” all feel like...
Folk duo the Dodos have always eschewed the Svengali approach to their partnership. Unlike the White Stripes, known for Jack White’s domination and Meg White’s half-hearted drum banging, each member of this guitar-and-drums duo contributes equally to the group’s mellow indie-folk sound. And presumably, the fact that neither claims to be the other’s ex-spouse makes things less complicated. The Dodos are singer and songwriter Meric Long and drummer Logan Kroeber. Unlike Meg White, Kroeber actually seems capable of keeping time and playing...