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...emotional candor of his earlier work. The single off of I’m Wide Awake, “Lua,” is clearly an attempt to reintroduce that sense of sincerity. Oberst sings “Lua” without any kind of accompaniment, going for the quiet, tortured style he had delivered so effectively on previous albums. And while the song is beautiful, it’s a rough fit with the rest of the album, and feels like much more a half-hearted throwback than anything else. Oberst has bought into his own personality cult...
...does leave some breathing room, though. The precious M83 of Dead Cities survives in “Farewell/Goodbye,” a soothing scoop of inspiration á la Sigur Rós. And though even the quiet songs of Before the Dawn can be a stressful listen, the album is mesmerizingly and seamlessly stitched together. Paralleling the band’s own de- and reconstruction, Before The Dawn will cut open your heart with a Casio keyboard, sew it back together and still leave you looking forward to the sunrise...
...with a window view of a mid-sized European city—not quite the crammed floor and dark-lit ambience of the Paradise. The Kings hit the scene in 2000 with a self-titled album on Kindercore, but it wasn’t until 2001’s Quiet is the New Loud on Astralwerks that the band entered the critical limelight. That album title was a succinct statement of the band’s philosophy, but Riot on an Empty Street is no closer to riotous than the debut. The band’s two members, Erland...
...live act, Low are a breath of fresh air. Alan and Mimi, as practicing Mormons, lead a quiet lifestyle worlds removed from most of their groupies-n-gin peers. Shining through in their lyrics and in their relationship, this faith that sets them apart also brings their sound to a new level. Although less minimalist than their first release (every song title on I Could Live In Hope is one word), The Great Destroyer is just as bare and beautiful as the rest of their albums. The music, although not conducive even to foot-tapping, rewards patience and silence with...
...Last weekend a group of more than 50 conservatives called the House Republican Study Committee gathered for their annual retreat at the Marriot Hotel in Baltimore. Despite their modest name, the group is composed of some of the Capitol's staunchest conservatives. In Bush's first term, they quietly complained about policies they abhorred, such as Bush's education law that widely expanded the reach out of the federal government into determining how local schools measured success and huge expansion of Medicare. They're quiet no more. The group, led by Indiana Rep. Mike Pence, put a statement of principles...