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...lounge-act number, slows down the album into a malaise that it never recovers from. Moreover, the flourishes, especially the horns, that peppered the opening reappear constantly throughout the album to the point of tedium. Shifts and breaks become less spontaneous and more calculated. At the halfway point the album starts to sound like thick syrup. The tempo starts to pick up in the last quarter, but it is too little, too late. Unfortunately, Laetitia Sadier’s characteristic vocal monotone and dense lyrics do not dispel Sound-Dust’s narcotic effect. After listening to Sound-Dust...

Author: By Andrew R. Iliff, William K. Lee, and Stacy A. Porter, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: New Albums | 9/28/2001 | See Source »

...next two tracks deliver on the overture’s promise. “Spacemoth” is a genre-fusion that starts out as a campy rendition of Danny Elfman film score, but halfway it is unexpectedly broken up by a frenetic drum beat, interspersed with wailing horns. Suddenly, these horns lead into a rollicking 1960s R&B finish. “Captain Easychord” is an engaging interplay of pop genres. It starts out with a John Lennonesque piano melody, lapses briefly into slide guitar (á là the Beatles?...

Author: By Andrew R. Iliff, William K. Lee, and Stacy A. Porter, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: New Albums | 9/28/2001 | See Source »

...question of what to do with the magnolia became a sort of running joke between the neighbors, who were drawn together over the years by the proximity of the quirky, multi-colored family houses lining their Cambridge neighborhood halfway between Harvard and Porter Square...

Author: By Daniela J. Lamas, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Local Man Died On Flight Eleven | 9/20/2001 | See Source »

...Thailand-based SeaCanoe at (66-76) 212-252. If you want to travel to Cat Ba from Hanoi, travel agents in the capital can arrange a two- or three-day trip for $20-$40, which includes boat rides, a bus to and from the capital and hotels halfway along in Bai Chay or Hong Gai, its polluted coal-mining neighbor to the east. (Getting there is definitely not half the fun: neither Bai Chay, Hong Gai nor Haiphong, a dismal collection of flyblown karaoke bars that are the jumping-off point to Ha Long Bay for those arriving by train...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Getting Sea Legs in Vietnam's Ha Long Bay | 9/17/2001 | See Source »

Graham-Felsen spent last weekend in Paris and boarded a plane traveling back to Boston on Tuesday. About halfway into the flight, the pilot announced that the plane would have to land in Halifax because of “some kind of terrorism,” Graham-Felsen said...

Author: By Alex B. Ginsberg and Daniela J. Lamas, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Air Travel Ban Strands Students, Faculty | 9/14/2001 | See Source »

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