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...music follows suit, sweeping the listener along in a daze. “Used to Be,” a rerecorded version of the track that first appeared on a 2008 single release, exemplifies this fuller sound unique to “Teen Dream.” An upbeat piano ballad of sorts, its poetic unanswered questions address the pangs of growing apart. On this and other tracks, the emotional core of the song is consistently detectable on the surface. Beach House’s music has matured and it shows...
...standing here / Oh I’m not standing here,” he yells on “Written in Reverse,” the album’s bluntest approach to its running themes of heartbreak and self-doubt. As its initially clunky piano riff gives way to harsh outbursts of bass and guitar, “Written in Reverse” emerges as a pummeling, persistent beast, closing out the otherwise tightly-wound A-side with well-earned fury...
...Makes Your Money” is the sleek slow-burner Daniel has been trying to write for years, with its midway shift from bass to guitar creating the album’s sublime peak. Even the least thrilling tracks on “Transference”—piano ballad “Goodnight Laura” and the meandering, bass-heavy “Nobody Gets Me But You”—are unmistakably the work of seasoned veterans. At a point in their career where a merely adequate post-breakthrough record would suffice...
...school classrooms "look like lecture halls." They have also raised the potential for clashes between students from rival schools and neighborhoods suddenly thrown under the same roof; as a result 137 guidance counselors cut by Bobb were later hired back. Bobb had a similar change of heart after 20 piano teachers were dismissed. "You go back to your apartment and think, How can you have a school of music without a piano teacher?" Bobb says. So he hired them back too. Barbara Byrd-Bennett, Bobb's chief academic officer and a former CEO of Cleveland's public schools, says...
...Gray Elephant with the soft, pink ears was sitting on the piano bench on Christmas morning. I was about 5. It was roughly the same size...