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While some of the band's songs are more danceable than others, the abrupt changes in style within each song would definitely lead to interesting dance interpretation by any audience. Sleep That Burns is at its best when Dinda sings high against Magus' deep, haunting voice...
Dinda, a Brown University student, says the band is an attempt to discard old formulas and to perform music different from the "old slop you hear from every other band." Magus and drummer Brian Carpenter discovered Dinda, Voorhes and guitarist Steve Allegretto through a series of ads in a Providence newspaper in early...
According to Magus, "the best music being written in this country right now is being written in the basements and attics." He says he feels that the pop scene is so impoverished artistically because "economic laws are ruling the market. People are more cautious because they remember being ripped off." As a result, a lot of great music goes unheard, he says...
...Magus is a former performance artist, and he resembles David Byrne in his spontaneous, sharp movements onstage, as he combines speaking with the singing of his highly personal lyrics...
...describing the effect he hopes his lyrics will have on the band's audience, Magus discusses Plato's theory on the esoteric and the exoteric, saying that the hidden meaning of his songs will become apparent after repeated listenings. "I like my songs to be sort of like a window to look through; you can see anything however you want to," Magus has said...