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...more elusive touch of nostalgia which lingers long after one stops listening. This isn’t the stilted soul typically employed by dance subgenres in need of validation (deep house, atmospheric jungle, R&B-flavored 2-step); it’s an utterly original take on na??ve optimism, life’s simple pleasures and escaping to the past. Listening to Since I Left You is like being curled up with a soul mate while floating through the clouds and never looking down...
...each of their songs is revolutionary in nature and political in content and quote authors such as Noam Chomsky, Samuel Beckett, George Orwell and, of course, Karl Marx. The album insert includes an essay entitled “The Global Fear Factory,” an earnest and slightly na??ve piece about how capitalism breeds “subtle and diffuse low-level fear” and how resistance movements are springing up “on a plane internal to capitalism, erupting all over its body...
...contrast to these na??ve efforts, Schneider’s prints capture motion. The hands and lips glow to the extent that they were pressed against the negative. Some are incandescent and pulse with life, as if trying to burst out of the glass; one from a two-year old boy sits curled and silent like a raccoon’s paw, taking up almost no space on the black matte. The life that animates each hand’s outline creates tension between the jet-black background and the dark, mottled interior with its rune-like lifelines...
...band have gone soft in their later years. And when Sumner muses about young love and its indiscretions on “Close Range” or “Someone Like You,” it comes across as sentimental yet poignant, whereas most younger vocalists sound na??ve and childish when broaching the same subject. New Order may be 20 years into a career, but thanks to hiatus nearly a decade long, they return energetic and fresh, exemplified by the ripping guitar chorus of “Rock the Shack,” which does what...
...fare much better. Theoretically, each of the Houses is supposed to have a Junior Common Room where students can gather to read, socialize and meet in an informal setting. These beautiful, frequently wood-paneled rooms are the sort of places Harvard plasters over its brochures, enticing na??ve applicants with dreams of endless intellectual discourse in quaint, posh settings. In reality, however, most Junior Common Rooms are not hangout havens, but overflow rehearsal space. They are usually booked well in advance by homeless a cappella groups and roving theater productions...