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...nearly a decade, Animal Collective have built a myth from music that thwarts both a satisfactory musical genealogy and a single sufficient expression of genre. Even as that myth flirted with self-parody??with the insistence on foregoing members’ names for precocious pseudonyms or wearing ridiculous masks in press photos—the band’s approach to music-making has remained consistently innovative and their output stubbornly unique.For six years and as many albums, Animal Collective narrated a sort of ongoing insane, half-perfect sonic collage of genre, building structurally damaged and occasionally brilliant...
...This Is It,” “Wish You Were Here,” “She’s Lost Total Control”: if those song titles don’t sound strangely familiar, then you don’t listen to rock music. Parody??s the point.And Adams does it ridiculously well, getting nearly everyone right. There’s the Edge-like guitar of “So Alive”; Adams underscores the joke by imitating Bono’s legato quaver. The “Wish You Were Here?...
...people like O’Reilly, Sean Hannity, Chris Matthews, Anderson Cooper et al. for the jokes; on the other hand, he needs to remain far enough removed from them and carve enough of an identity to stay interesting. But when everyone knows it’s a parody??it doesn’t quite work...
Once chided for building too high, Harvard aimed low this time in the form of three-story homes. The latest gripe: the designs are “unfriendly” and “almost a parody?? of current neighborhood housing. But how parodic is the Harvard-funded affordable housing being built in Riverside? The new Harvard-funded park...
Once chided for building too high, Harvard aimed low this time in the form of three-story homes. The latest gripe: the designs are “unfriendly” and “almost a parody?? of current neighborhood housing. But how parodic is the Harvard-funded affordable housing being built in Riverside? The new Harvard-funded park...