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Opening track “Acts of Man,” sets the tone lyrically and harmonically for the rest of the album. The song is rather static: Smith sings within a restricted vocal range, and the lyrics consist of a repeated chant: “If all that grows...
This incongruity continues until the fourth track, “Fortune,” on which the band’s intentions are beautifully realized. The absence of heavy handed and uninteresting electric guitar riffs—which in previous tracks drown out otherwise intricate instrumentation—allows the...
After this high, despair comes a couple of songs later in “Walk in the Park,” where melancholy is consoled by Scally’s dominant keyboard melody. The lyrics have a great internal rhyme scheme—“The face that you...
—Staff writer Melody Y. Hu can be reached at melodyhu@fas.harvard.edu.
Melody Y. Hu ’12