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...side.” Despite the album’s many strengths, it’s clear that there’s something missing. On their track “Love U,” Trapper laments about an unrequited love. Trying to reflect the pain of the subject matter, Trapper deliberately makes the track painful to listen to. The lyrics, as well as Earley’s moaning of the word “Love,” have an echo of The Who’s “Love, Reign O’er Me?...
...Gilmore Girls” actress Lauren Graham plays Kearns’s wife, and while her character is sympathetic, she is sidelined so quickly that Graham has little time to develop her personality. The film’s style, which could have served to elevate its subject matter, only deadens it. Just as Kinnear portrays a very ordinary man, director Marc Abraham places him in a very dreary world—1950s Detroit. The color quality of the film is bleak and sometimes so washed-out as to seem almost black and white. The muted music of the soundtrack...
...tempo drumming, and it’s a suitable welcome to the journey that is “High Places.” As the album continues, “High Places” evolves to become more electronic. The sound is difficult to describe or, for that matter, to imagine—it sounds a bit like laid-back trance music colorfully drenched with hypnotic vocals and influences from countless other styles, from Middle-eastern to Reggae. In other words, if Kimya Dawson or the Juliana Hatfield Three were to turn electronic, it is likely High Places would...
...boat / Leaving me stranded all in love on my own.” Further signs of overproduction and underwhelming originality can also be heard on “17,” where church bells provide the intro and outro for a song not too different in subject matter from Winger’s track of the same slightly-seedy title. The album does have a few remnants of Kings of Leon’s former feel, however. It can be heard in the pulsing, scratchy bass hook of “Crawl” and the heavily distorted...
...should hava to witness such a thing. I, signora, am the Prince Filippo Fumagalli. May I escort you outside, signiora?”Felicity allowed Ollie to take her arm. She gazed for a moment at the railroad track and sighed deeply. “What mighta the matter be?” Ollie said.Felicity sighed again. “My story is hardly unique.”“No, no, bellisima,” Ollie said. “All happy-a-families are alike, but each unhappy family is...extremamente unhappy-ah.”Felicity...