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...highlight of the album, however, comes from the wholly different sound of "Red Right Hand" by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds. Sung with a deep, eerie voice, the song carries an extremely mellow groove. Mysterious sounds radiate in the background--ultimately conspiring with the vocals to create a stunningly arcane song. While the Scream 2 soundtrack may sell because it includes bands like the Foo Fighters and Dave Matthews Band, the real appeal comes from offerings like this one and those from lesser-known groups...
...will react to Static and Silence in one of two ways: they'll either love it because it's such classic and familiar material or they'll love it because it puts an original spin on the same tried-and-true Sundays product. On the one hand, the old mellow ambiance is there, along with the familiar existentialist love themes: "a butterfly in the wind is drifting like I do/it's dumb--I know what I want to say/but I can't even take one breath." On the other hand, a plethora of extra instrumentation helps the quartet explore these...
...strongest performers of the night were 112, a southern R&B quartet with a mellow yet smooth sound, similar to that of Boyz II Men or Jodeci. Their harmonious singing left concertgoers wanting to hear more. The performance of their hit song "Cupid," complete with a shirtless group member playing the guitar, was the best song of the night--and the only one which displayed any significant amount of musical talent...
...lull has finally arrived with this new release. So Long treads no new musical territory--prepare to sit back and relax, don't wait to be jolted upright by anything exciting or surprising. Instead, happily settle into this boldly unexpansive album with its unwavering familiarity as it dips into mellow grooves and blasts out edgy numbers that have all been heard at some point. The end result is a dulling immediate satisfaction that never quite makes any sort of indelible impression...
Trite or touching, lang's message wasn't lost on her audience members, who left decidedly more mellow than when they had entered. lang's metaphors had also come full circle by the conclusion of the evening, and no longer evoked the same images of mystery and innuendo. In one of her last songs of the evening, "The Air that I Breathe," she instead described the gentleness of a longer relationship...