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...this makes for distinctive yet relatively familiar rock tunes, with a variety of rhythmic textures. If there is one weakness, it is one which plagues much of rock today: towards the end of many songs the grunge guitar kicks in, and consequently the song endings tend to sound similar. The best tunes, such as "Be Sweet" and "Debonair," are those where drums, bass, and guitars are all active. "My Curse" is a piano and acoustic guitar midtempo track with vocalist Marcy Mays featured. In rhythm and feel it is very similar to Eric Clapton's unplugged version of "Layla," with...
...language is blatant and sometimes crass. In this short play, it is a paradox that the dialogue should seem to drag on so uselessly, while the action seems to thunder on like machine-gun fire. This slaughters both the characters and the play. In rhythmic but nonsensical spurts, so much anger builds up in these women that they start to chant "BASTARD MEN! BASTARD MEN!" in an eery, Brave New World-like crescendo, and do it more than once. The fact that boys are made of "snaps and snails and puppy dogs' tails" is hissed visciously from the tongues...
...drama, whose protagonists are members of a group of exiles, their guards and the official visitors, focusing on the complex relationship between them. Situated on a barren island, with the strong wind and burning sun, this closed society symbolizes a concentration camp with its imaginary characters participating in a rhythmic ritual, while searching for human dignity and the essence of things...
Though the lyrical opening of the second movement was plagued problems similar to those of the first movement, the pianist, Mihae Lee, heretofore invisible in following Chase, effectively initiated and propelled the exchange between violin and piano as the movement climaxes; this instance of rhythmic alternation, the piano asserting one chord and the violin rebutting with another...
...consolidated. Time and success seem to have brought the band out of its hermetic shell and into a bigger, if not always brighter, dimension. The new songs still seethe with catchy keyboard and guitar hooks and foot-happy beats; even the slower numbers are propelled by a steady rhythmic pulse. But the narcissistic intensity of the lyrics has evolved into a more compassionate outlook...