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After I first heard the song “Unintended” by Muse last year, I was in a frenzy to find as much Muse music as I could. After going through 2001’s Origin of Symmetry breathlessly, I braced myself for disappointment from their new album...
By far the gem of the album is the final track, an orchestral rendition of “Guyute.” Leaving no question that Anastasio has a gift for crafting melody, he leaves the listener entwined in a complex and majestic resonance of bliss.
Sondheim and Weidman have made only minor changes for the new production (directed by Joe Mantello) beyond including a new song, Something Just Broke, written for the 1992 London version. It's a nice addition to a score that is (oddly, given the subject) one of Sondheim's most tuneful...
Even when Vladislav Delay was known for his obtuse abstractions on the Mille Plateaux label rather than his dancefloor-tinged output as Luomo, the influence of techno and house rhythms on his productions was clear. It was his debut Luomo album, Vocalcity, which perfected the marriage of experimentation and functionality...
If the term art-pop conjures up images of archly obscurantist noise bands with a heady disdain for melody, think again. It would be hard to be more artsy than Brighton, U.K.-based quartet Electrelane. On their first album, they eschewed the use of vocals (classy), but for ?...