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TAPES 'N TAPES THE LOON If you like indie rock, you probably own a dozen albums just like this Minneapolis, Minn., band's taut, lo-fi debut--and you will want this one too. The lyrics are from the Pavement school of abstraction ("Kelly the insistor/ Your brother is a blister"), and lead singer Josh Grier has the same dry, almost cracking voice as David Byrne. What's original is Tapes 'n Tapes' ability to spin out compelling little mood fantasias, from the spooky isolation of Omaha to the drunken, bluesy instrumental Crazy Eights. The Loon feels eremitic and weird...
Keener is also perfect for naturally portraying a beautiful woman who isn’t beyond the reach of Andy. The rest of the cast (including Christopher-Guest-troop member Jane Lynch as Carell’s boss) satisfies the loon quota. “Virgin” rarely fails—an alcoholic driving scene is the only real miss—and it catches itself when it does...
...HUGHES: Yeah, but you're the kind of loon who thinks that if he tells the truth about his own inner drives and if he exposes things, then people will love...
...without a sound. At last when they judged that I insisted on being a pain in the neck, they did what I had waited for them to do: They did not fluster and flap up splashily in the way that, say, ducks do when disturbed; rather, they did the loon thing - the magic act. One after another, they elegantly beaked down and vanished without a trace. Poof! Submarines indeed. They dematerialized; they passed miraculously into the universe below...
...long suspension. I tried to guess where they would come up again. I waited. I guessed wrong, as I always do. After a moment or two, they popped up in an opposite, unexpected quarter. The loon is a deadpan wit. We repeated the game three times. At last, they tired of me, and vanished. As I paddled across flat water to the dock, I heard a single loon call in the swampish bay beyond the lodge - the loneliest sound on earth, a premonition of winter, of what's to come...