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...access to friends, possessions, or other small human dignities. Apparently MHS had to fight to keep UHS from stitching red patches bearing the word “SWINE” onto the clothes of the infirmed. “We’re hoping next year the university will let us provide assistance to the sick in the form of sun-lamps. We’re really optimistic that sun-lamps could make the swine flu experience a little less sad and dehumanizing,” said one source...
...coughing, I was sure going any longer without medicine would kill me. Luckily my meal arrived, containing with it two aspirins. They didn’t alleviate much of the white, enveloping pain I felt, but taking tiny bites from each pill over the course of many hours let me bask in the illusion that I was consuming real medicine. It was this semblance of hope that kept me alive...
Eschewing the simplistic, traditional structure of their other songs, the more uptempo “Almost Let You In” resists the stagnation with which the rest of the album flirts, and is one of the record’s better tracks. “Almost Let You In” features a comparatively complex and propulsive guitar melody. However, the addition of a distorted single-note piano line that glides like a phantom and the far-off stomp of the drums is what truly makes the song. The number also highlights the strength of the vocalists both...
While “Almost Let You In” shows Molina & Johnson pushing their genre to pleasant effect, the tracks that stay comfortably within the genre and play it with an authentic familiarity have just as much merit. Songs like “Twenty Cycles to the Ground” and “Each Star Marks a Day,” while doing nothing to transcend or reinvigorate the genre, are a testament to the preeminent mastery of alt-country exhibited by Molina & Johnson...
Other songs like “Put Me Back Together” and “I Don’t Want to Let You Go” take on emotional themes in the way only the most saccharine of pop songs can. The band slows down the tempo and Cuomo sings with a whiney twinge to his voice, as if trying to emulate the style of the “Put Me Back Together” co-writers Tyson Ritter and Nick Wheeler of The All-American Rejects. “I Don’t Want to Let...