Word: mellowered
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...Make it a mellow night. Jazz clubs and lounges—try Ryles or Regatta Bar—provide a laid-back atmosphere with decent music and good drinks. Break out of the Square and Lansdowne circuit to explore the smooth side of Boston’s nightlife...
...troubled sleep. On this satisfying new album, its songs are gentle but insistent, melancholic but always melodious. At times the band comes off like a more polite, slightly less experimental version of the art-rock band Radiohead. Although the majority of the tracks on this CD--including the mellow Driftwood, the mopey Why Does It Always Rain on Me?--are quiet and introspective, Travis never comes across as wimpy or insubstantial...
...Forget your standard beer pong. Erase mental images of tube-topped Wellesley girls pressed against Mather's steamed windows. Despite occasional party-crashers--French au pairs, a homeless man, a motorcycle clan--Das' affairs remain mellow. At the "Wine and Cheese" parties, tables are garnished with brie, camembert and crackers. "His floor-to-ceiling windows reveal a river view. You walk in, and everyone's dressed well," Helen Springut '03, a regular attendee, describes. "There's a table in the back with wine, and some older guy looks at you and asks, 'Red or White?' " Das' friend, social swinger Paul...
...problem is that the songs never quite get there. Are they melodious? Yes. Lyrical? Yes. Passionate? Hmmm. The lyrics are, but as far as the mood goes, mellow is a far more appropriate adjective. Each song is contemplative and smooth, but no track is dynamic enough in its own right to ever truly distinguish itself. The title track comes close, but never fully peaks. Also of note are the poignant, emotive "Less Than Strangers" and "The Only One," a haunting arrangement featuring Emmy Lou Harris on harmony vocals. Most of the other tracks have a tendency to blend into...
...Teen magazine ("Pretty pretty boy I love you"). Out of the 13 songs in the album, approximately 13 sound like the same song, give or take a few notes and tempo markings. Though nowhere as skanky as their teen contemporaries, M2M's voices are far weaker or perhaps just mellow and undeveloped in that Hanson way. The thin instrumental backup does nothing to cover up their desperate lack of vocal and stylistic range. The one redeeming factor that might set them apart from the rest is that they play their own instruments. Perhaps they just need time to mature. Meanwhile...