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When approached about her band's popularity, lead singer Kay Hanley of the Boston-based Letters To Cleo provides a mixed response...
...upside is that I get to make records for a career," Hanley confides. "It makes me happy that this is what I get to do with my life. [But] I've never been good with criticism...the more successful you become, the more people want to knock you down...
...Hanley, a Dorchester native who grew up "very much a part" of the Boston music scene, these are the issues (along with switching labels and a rushed production schedule) that Letters To Cleo had to face with the release of their punchy third album, GO!. Assimilating these concerns into the band's expectedly tight, energized musical character, the record spits them back out with a controlled pop ferocity that few can parallel...
...more substance lyrically, the music is not as immediate, but there's a good payoff if you listen enough," Hanley modestly notes. Compared to the band's past albums, Aurora Gory Alice and Wholesale Meats and Fish, GO! "covers more ground musically and explores new territory within the confines the pop song has to offer." She deservedly touts it as "the band's best, ...a more complete album...
Once shooting ends, the editor has an intimate relationship with the director--12-hour days that may last for months. Says Ron Howard (Apollo 13) of his work with editors Michael Hill and Daniel Hanley: "It's really gotten down to grunts and stares and head shakes. They can see exactly what I was going...