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Despite achieving moments of such expansive grandeur, the songs can at times become rather unbearable. “Orion?? is one of the most pompous tracks: soaring ensemble vocals lay over incessant drum beats, drowning out Barnett’s own simplistic vocal droning. The result is certainly powerful, reminiscent of the melodramas of opera, however in merging so many elements the song loses the beauty and resonance of its simplicity...
Although tracks such as “Orion?? can seem contrived, the beautiful levity and simplicity of “Hologram” punctuates this heaviness. “Hologram” retains the ceaseless drum beats which adorn every track, but here they are lighter and seem to caress the piano melody. Meanwhile, Barnett’s unpretentious voice is freed from the digital modification it goes through elsewhere. In holding back from electronic manipulation and overt classicism, TNP unearth a true gem. “Hologram” is a small nest of musical escapism...
...Orion??s product and the way in which it is marketed point to a larger issue. With the fervor of anthropologists discovering a new culture, journalists have recently been calling attention to the consumption habits of modern consumers, Man 2.0. These are the people who want to read but don’t have time to, the kind who rush from business meeting to dinner table while frantically typing the next day’s schedule into their PDAs. They’re the ones who read CliffsNotes in high school and read abridged books now, the ones...
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