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...underground," which not coincidentally, is what the entirety of their new album is about. As I'm sure you'll find out next week. Memo to Jake Kreilkamp: if you don't get all the mods and rockers reference and say what Buddy Holly song Pavement stole the vocal riff in "Silence Kit" from, your lose...
...ends up with such an emotional wallop: one tune and one line from this record can take over your whole day, if you're lucky. what remember of "Time Expired," for example, consists of the chorus--"Time expired, violation/It's a fucked-up situation"--and the throbbing five-chord riff that comes before and after it, a riff that's just as unsettled as the f'd-up situation singer Christina Billotte is describing, but that's clear enough for every note to count. "Don't You Ever?" which opens the record, has a similar economy of means...
...early records were just as clear, economical, hummable and covertly sad as Soda Pop Rip, Off, though early Scrawl song were about half as fast. Other aural similarities are to Tallulah Gosh (the fast, sloppy, Oxford pop band that eventually became Heavenly) and to Boston's Salem 66, another riff-oriented all-female trio. Which raises the question of whether there's a separate tradition of all-female bands, stretching from the Raincoats on, whose sounds owe more to one another than they do to any male-fronted predecessors. Scrawl used to object strenuously to any such assertion when interviewers...
...your interest, just ordinary enough to succeed in addressing everyday life, and, above all, catchy and well-constructed. This is a CD you could play five times in a row without offending your roommates and without getting even an inch bored with most of the songs; the undulating opening riff of the first song, "This Is Not My Flag," ought to follow you out the door and down the street if you, or your roommates, have any appreciation at all for well-made, unpretentious, unoriginal melody-driven guitar pop, of which this is as good a specimen as any label...
Brattle Theatre. 40 Brattle St., Harvard Square. 876-6837. "Riff Raff" at 4 and 8 p.m. and "High Hopes" at 5:50 and 9:45 on Thursday, Dec. 9. "Wings of Desire" at 3 and 7:40 on Friday and Saturday, Dec. 10 and 11. "Taxi Driver" at 5:30 and 10 on Friday and Saturday, Dec. 10 and 11, with a Saturday matinee at 1 p.m. "The African Queen" at 3:30 and 7:30 and "Summertime" at 1:30, 5:30 and 9:30 on Sunday, Dec. 12. "The Letter" at 4:15 and 7:45 and "Another...