Word: impressively
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...Luminous Valley, glitter fiercely. In the end, lack of food forced Caley to turn back. He'd succeeded, but his feat remains little known today, perhaps because, as his biographer Joan Webb suspects, the outspoken and independent ways of this son of an English horse-dealer didn't impress the colony's most powerful gentlemen. He left Sydney six years later, and despite writing of being consumed by his longing to see the mountains once more, never returned to Australia. Perhaps Caley would be comforted to know that, two centuries on, their wildness, and his prowess in steering through them...
...lyrics, leaving bassist Clayton and drummer Mullen Jr. just a few empty bars to fill and plenty of leisure time. But U2's less famous members are hardly dead weight. In fact, their job is to be live weight--or at least ballast. They are steady, difficult to impress and maddeningly unromantic. "If we're in the studio trying to build the rocket," says Bono, "Edge is under the hood with his slide rule, I'm trying to become fuel, Larry is pointing out the reasons it'll never fly, and Adam's asking, 'Do we really want...
...knows that Haynes is capable of much more when paired with young virtuoso Derek Trucks. When the two play, Haynes seems to leave his pentatonic comfort zone a bit to combat Trucks’ sheer ingenuity and natural sense of rhythm and melody. Alone, Haynes and the Mule still impress, but don’t experiment with tempo, feel or melody as much as they could...
...Separate Reality” sounds so much like the Allman Brothers original “Desdemona” and blues standard “Worried Down with the Blues” that Haynes’ songwriting capacities are brought into question; overall, the songs on this album impress less than those on The Deepest End. There are still ferocious moments on many of the tracks where Haynes’ gruff voice can make your hair stand up or where his guitar playing is especially emotive, but many of the songs are difficult to tell apart and thus the album feels...
While the band’s highly orchestrated visual and auditory concoction would impress any young hipster, their versatility managed to astonish everyone. The audience, filled with Gen-Nexters and baby-boomers alike, hollered their approval for the entirety of Wilco’s two-and-a-half hour...