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...Will Cut Our Hair When We’re Gone?” The songs were expansive and luminous masterpieces, eschewing traditional chorus-verse patterns; instead they meshed phrases and instrumentals into confidently organic art. This technique was best exemplified on that album’s most popular track, “Jellybones,” a sparse electronic backbone slowly layered with drumbeats and high, breathy vocals; it was broken briefly by sudden semi-silence, then slipped slowly into not-choruses and not-bridges. The song, and the album itself, dipped indiepop in molten, sugary experimentation. The Unicorns broke...
...George Harrison, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty, and Bob Dylan formed The Travelling Wilburys, a popular but unremarkable super-group with no cultural legacy to speak of. Likewise, Monsters of Folk—a super-group comprised of My Morning Jacket’s Jim James, Bright Eyes’ Conor Oberst and Mike Mogis, and M. Ward—are stacked with talent, but even after several years of live collaboration and half a year’s worth of hype, their self-titled debut lacks coherence and originality.“Monsters of Folk” oscillates between Oberst?...
...Putting It Together” come from both monster hits like “Company” and “Sweeney Todd” and lesser known works like “The Frogs,” a critical success that failed to gain a popular following. As Klyce puts it, “Some of the songs [in ‘Putting It Together’] you’ll know and love, the rest will make you think, ‘This is a great song, why haven’t I heard it before...
...unlikely event that Germans dump their popular Chancellor, Angela Merkel, in the country's election on Sept. 27, what would be the legacy of her four years in power? One key achievement, according to Volker Perthes, director of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs, is the Lisbon Treaty, which was designed to reform and streamline the workings of the European Union. "Without Merkel's involvement, and the role played by Germany, there would be no Lisbon Treaty now," Perthes says. But if that's the cornerstone of Merkel's foreign policy, she could see her legacy crumble less...
...Castigating Iranian leaders on the nuclear issue has previously stirred broad popular nationalist sentiment in Iran, which benefited the regime. "The risk is the stronger the language you use against Ahmadinejad abroad, the stronger [he becomes] at home," says Dominique Moisi, senior adviser at the French Institute for International Relations in Paris. "But Nicolas Sarkozy has always been very vocal and visible - which can make him vulnerable for targeting. Still, that's how Sarkozy is, so that's what...