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Gomez’ third album of all-new material, In Our Gun, arrives in a haze of fuzzy, overblown guitars and driving drums with “Shot Shot,” the opening song and lead single. Harder-edged and more condensed than anything Gomez have previously done, the song runs less than two and half minutes. The insistent three note riff is reminiscent of Radiohead’s “National Anthem,” before Gomez subvert it with a wicked saxophone stab and a blues-flecked chorus...
...fears, however, were overblown. For the most part, Europeans greeted the launch with good humor and even civic-mindedness. The debut of more than 10 billion new bank notes, legal tender from Lisbon to Helsinki and from Dublin to Athens, has given 300 million Europeans their first true experience of union. (Britain, the most significant holdout, is keeping the pound for now.) An Austrian who stood in a long bank queue to get her first walletful of euros could go home and see Spaniards doing the same thing on TV. The much photographed lines outside some banks were strictly voluntary...
...being wary--or even fearful. Some local law-enforcement officials think the FBI's public warning last Thursday, coming after repeated alarms on the nonpublic National Law Enforcement Telecommunications System, was overblown. "Without a developed threat, the alert is difficult to operationalize," says Michael Jordan, public information coordinator of the St. Paul police department in Minnesota. "We can't go to double-heightened alert. We can't have all our officers working 24 hours...
...being wary - or even fearful. Some local law-enforcement officials think the FBI's public warning last Thursday, coming after repeated alarms on the nonpublic National Law Enforcement Telecommunications System, was overblown. "Without a developed threat, the alert is difficult to operationalize," says Michael Jordan, public information coordinator of the St. Paul police department in Minnesota. "We can't go to double-heightened alert. We can't have all our officers working 24 hours...
...Hair today, Gone tomorrow?”), this is rock done just right, as the minute-count shows: Barely any of the 13 songs last much longer than the three minutes it takes to arrive, get you smiling, and swing out the door—no overblown rock histrionics or seven and eight minute guitar solos. The songs bubble with a humor that is often abandoned in modern guitar music. One of the highlights is the jazzy “Cole Porter,” which finds the singer “plundering all of Cole Porter this morning/Trying...