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...even after seventeen tedious years of development, Ray, based on Charles’ life, does not muster any semblance of the splendor within his music. The film lacks emotional attachment on any level and fails in every way as a meaningful addition to his life and legacy. With a mix of deceitful, manipulative Hollywood story telling techniques masquerading as artistic strokes and tacky, unfocused, pop-filmmaking, director Taylor Hackford, manages to turn an amazing story of sheer will triumphing over adversity into a two-and-a-half hour mess that will damage Charles’ memory, even with Jamie Foxx?...
...presenting catchy melodies in bizarre ways, but the idea here is more fractured easy listening than campfire sing-along. The album is profoundly lo-fi, sometimes endearingly, sometimes gratingly; it comes across like something eavesdropped and only half-understood, with vocals, keyboards and feedback funneled through such a swampy mix that they often become indistinguishable. It’s in the spirit of ’60s and ’70s AM pop, at least outwardly, but chooses to disrupt any easy payoff with out-of-nowhere tempo swings and awkward vocals. This is music shattered and taped tenuously...
...though Dawson and wide receiver Corey Mazza have both improved and a healthy Fitzpatrick is a marked improvement over a tandem alternating between an injured one and Garrett Schires. But the Crimson has benefited from a healthy combination of good fortune and clutch play—an elusive mix...
...Gold Medal they're going by their real names, and they have expanded their thievery to include licks from Loverboy, Kiss and other high priests of shallow catchiness. The music is nothing you haven't heard before. Songs like Fall Behind Me and Revolver fly by on the same mix of punk reverence and hair-band irony that fuels Weezer, the Hives and dozens of other bands. But the Donnas are better musicians than most of those other bands. Guitarist Allison Robertson in particular plays her three chords with tremendous clarity and without the pretension of genius. She knows this...
...We’re just going to try to give him a lot of different looks—man, zone—just mix it up,” Howell said. “We don’t believe we have to blitz to stop them...