Word: mellows
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Beck’s tenor sounds much better on the album’s more mellow cuts, such as “Movie Theme,” a solid combination of synthesized strings and soft-spoken vocal lines reminiscent of “Sea Change.” Other highlights include “Nausea,” built on a raw acoustic guitar and bass riff, with Beck doing his best Brit-pop vocal imitation. “Strange Apparition” is loveable piano-driven ’90s pop with a nice half-time breakdown...
...After starting out their career with a series of exciting, creative, and loud albums, culminating in 1997’s “I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One,” senescence began to set in. Since then, their new releases have been called amiable, mellow, low-key, good, and bad, but never fun. Despite the confrontational name, “I Am Not Afraid…” finds the group at the epitome of NPR-rock: every note and lyric has been expertly engineered to ensure that the listener’s pulse rate...
...slurping down 24 ounces of iced Dunkin’ Donuts coffee in mere minutes—but I can’t. I can only hope that you’ll stick around long enough that I’ll get a second chance. Leave the overstuffed chairs and mellow Norah Jones soundtrack to the TF meetings and uncomfortably-attached couples in Starbucks. You—with your lack of seating, loud-noise rock, and homeless clientele—are the perfect wingman for the charitable, yet brief, grabbing of coffee with the awkward kid from section. I don?...
...prize for Best Musical. And it may well sweep the Olivier Awards next spring. Which is fine by me, since I'm as fond of saucy Broadway musicals as of silly-smart British TV comedy. If an impudent young satire like Monty Python and the Holy Grail should mellow into a fat and happy Spamalot, that's just the normal lifespan of transgressive pop culture: first to be dismissed as shocking, then to be accepted as trailblazing and finally to be cherished in dewy memory. The Idle show returns the Python troupe to their music-hall roots...
...mellow happy. Ray is a rabid cheerleader whose shtick is that moxie and a good attitude will get you as far as you want. Before she comes out from the gated elevator door of her talk-show set, the audience has been pumped up by clips of her set to the insanely upbeat song Life Is a Highway, the same tune Arnold Schwarzenegger has played before speeches. Ray--who often smiles so wide, you see not only her gums but also that weird part above the gums--says that when she's feeling stressed or sorry for herself, she just...