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...attempt to incorporate new sounds and avoid being pigeonholed as an indie pop band can be seen from the album’s very beginning. “In the Mirror?? opens the album with heavy synth overlays which compete with a clear melody and upbeat harmonies. The song’s defining musical conflict—between rock and indie pop—is exemplary of a trend that pervades the album. Fittingly, and perhaps with a twist of irony, the song whines, “I wish I could change and make new rules / And love...
...Devil in the Mirror?? opens with the narrator, Laura Rivera, lamenting the murder of her best friend, Olga María. The mystery behind Olga María’s murder quickly unfolds and becomes intertwined with the political demise of an aspiring anti-communist presidential candidate. Rivera’s paranoia driven, stream-of-consciousness attempt to resolve the murder of her dearest friend conjures labyrinths of political schemes, unmasking the real chaotic networks of power behind the evil that dominates her country...
...Devil in the Mirror?? can sometimes become convoluted by Rivera’s disjointed thoughts and seemingly incoherent digressions, but this haziness eventually comes to highlight the distressing and straightforward condemnation that stems from Rivera’s never ceasing obsession. Each time she develops a new theory regarding Olga María’s death, a seemingly innocuous member of society is implicated and a new, authentic layer of wrongdoing is exposed...
...reassurance, J. Smith finds “a hundred shattered eyes in the looking glass / Staring back at me.” An eerily distorted distant-sounding guitar combines with the everpresent hi-hat cymbal to reinforce the milieu of gloom developed by the lyrics. “Broken Mirror?? also marks a turning point in the album. The songs leading up to it are violent. The beginning of “Something, Anything” blares like the Arctic Monkeys. Healy basically screams all of “Long Way Down,” his voice audibly...
...voice to their personal pick for the hottest hunk. “What can I say? I need a man with a man’s voice,” says Phoebe Stone ’10. But while a manly voice may score a closer look at that mirror??and thus make strides towards a nursery full of soon-to-be bass singers—it has its drawbacks. Charles T. Boutwell ’10, the test subject with the deepest voice of the four, sees his sexy pipes as more of a curse than...