Word: lilts
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...shadow that could have been applied by windshield wipers. Iracebeth is as much a spoiled child as an evil monarch, pouting as she demands a pig for a footstool, and Bonham Carter plays her as a parody of Bette Davis in her Queen Elizabeth roles. There's a lilt to her malevolence; she keeps fey at bay. (See the great British thespians of Harry Potter...
...Falling Down A Mountain” consolidates Tindersticks’ rightful place as one of the most talented groups in British indie music. Rife with romantic orchestrations, intrepid percussion, daring experimentation and the quavering lilt of Stuart Staples, the album challenges the band’s status quo while continuing to produce songs that could fit on any of their previous albums. “Falling Down A Mountain” demonstrates one more commendable stage in the band’s evolution, proving that Tindersticks, far from plummeting, have ascended to the peak of musical maturity with only...
...when it was released, in March 1951. It encapsulates the lithe popular art of all those Les and Mary singles - the density and clarity, the distinctiveness of his guitar voice and her intimate vocal instrument, the heart and the fun. It's a number that expresses the choral lilt of early-'50s pop and the electric drive of mid-'50s rock, as if "Mr. Sandman" had married "Peggy...
...owns, just across a recycling plant on the industrial outskirts of St. Paul, Minn. "You just get used to it," he says. But he's not just talking about the state's notoriously long and frigid winters. Scanlon, 63, breaks into a laugh with a slightly Irish lilt. He's also talking about the unending senatorial contest the state is going through. "It just keeps going on and going on," he says. Indeed, in this northern state, patience is not a virtue - it's a necessity. Minnesotans, nevertheless, long for warmer weather and one clearly identifiable junior U.S. Senator...
...Green Jacket”—but all three are breathlessly quick compared to the hulking, self-consciously difficult pieces on “Cryptograms,” and all three are elevated by lead singer-songwriter Bradford Cox’s newly-discovered lilt. The more formulaic rock songs are spacey and urgent—they reinforce where “Crypograms” faltered. Chief among them are “Nothing Ever Happened” with its meaty bass-surge and “Twilight at Carbon Lake,” with its swooning, orchestral plunge...