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Putting on his thick black glasses, Scorsese struggled vigorously to mount a tall chair with a seat that came to his chest...

Author: By Faryl Ury, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pudding Crowns Scorsese | 2/14/2003 | See Source »

...halftime, the Crimson led 41-26 over a Brown team that was expected to mount a serious challenge to Harvard’s Ivy supremacy...

Author: By Alex M. Sherman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tubridy’s Feat Propels W. Hoops To Win | 2/10/2003 | See Source »

...Mount Eerie...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Music | 2/7/2003 | See Source »

After delivering The Glow, Pt. 2, an off-kilter pop album that topped many “Best of 2001” lists, critical darlings The Microphones have promptly returned with their follow-up. A considerably darker affair, Mount Eerie is a challenging five-song concept album of meditations on death. Central Microphone Phil Elvrum sculpts an appropriately chaotic mélange with his frail, wavering voice, delicate guitar acoustics and haunting background vocals provided by labelmates Mirah and Calvin Johnson. Most prominent, however, are the constantly booming percussion and out-of-sync drum loops, which evoke (respectively) Mount Eerie...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Music | 2/7/2003 | See Source »

...running river and melodic, lightly strummed guitar. The album’s climax hits with the title track, where layers of dramatic vocals mix with jarring drum loops in an almost sacred blend that recalls Radiohead’s Kid A. Like that unconventional and somewhat unsettling album, Mount Eerie constantly defies expectations. —Christopher A. Kukstis

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Music | 2/7/2003 | See Source »

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