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...themselves from where the album started. The once fresh and complexly layered sounds quickly become stale and pedantic. “Hidden Lakes,” to take just one example, maintains an aura that is reminiscent of “Meridian,” which primarily derives from Meiberg??s unchanging singing style and the repetitive nature of the underlying music. Not only is the lack of variety monotonous, it also detracts from the merits of each individual song, as each seems incapable of saying anything original...

Author: By Edward F. Coleman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Shearwater | 2/23/2010 | See Source »

...voice ad nauseum to create melodrama, manipulating his deep baritone to sound as though it comes from a heavy trance. While at times this is an asset, his voice becomes more and more affected as the album progresses, until it reaches an unbearable level of pretension. The zenith of Meiberg??s vocal affectation can be heard on “God Made Me,” where he abhorrently accentuates every note with an exaggerated swell of his voice...

Author: By Edward F. Coleman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Shearwater | 2/23/2010 | See Source »

Accompanying Meiberg??s affected voice are his equally affected lyrics. A particularly insufferable track is “Corridors,” which depicts a man being tortured by the man-made world. At the climax of the song, Meiberg screams out, “Chain him to the burning carousel / Till the horses tire / Blast away the bearings of his life / Till his eyes are wild / Till his eyes are white.” This violent imagery is the epitome of how appalling Meiberg??s hatred for the man-made can be. Yet his overbearing...

Author: By Edward F. Coleman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Shearwater | 2/23/2010 | See Source »

...Dossier,” to accompany the carefully crafted songs. The dossier contains pictures of foreign islands and birds, and excerpts of explorers’ memoirs that have traveled to such islands. One excerpt in particular, where an explorer speaks of shooting natives, was clearly chosen to add to Meiberg??s already overdrawn sloganeering, which after listening to the album is already tiresome...

Author: By Edward F. Coleman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Shearwater | 2/23/2010 | See Source »

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