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...release, “At War With The Mystics,” such a frustrating album. Anyone familiar with the band’s two previous albums—“The Soft Bulletin” and 2002’s “Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots??—will be able to point to the myriad recycle tropes that propped that record up. “Mystics” attempts to craft simpler, theoretically catchier—and typically somewhat monotonous—pop songs with the same sort of thematic import that...

Author: By Ryan J. Meehan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Flaming Lips | 10/16/2009 | See Source »

...hits the depths of his self-pity when he sings, “Real life, what does it feel like?” Which is bad news: if he too fancies himself a robot, then pop music’s in trouble. It’s already crowded with robots??the Jonas Brothers, the Duff sisters, a shiny Britney just wheeled out of the repair shop—and, unlike those droids, Kanye’s always had heart, has always made vital music. These days, his heart resembles the one on the cover...

Author: By Jake G. Cohen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Kanye West | 12/5/2008 | See Source »

...Room)” also benefit from improved mixing, with the acoustic guitar coming through crisply in both songs. Some of the songs, however, are actually hurt by the slightly replanned song structures, most notably fan favorites “Bowie” and “Robots?? (originally “The Humans are Dead”). Transforming the entire first half of “Bowie” into a spoken word section might have made the track easier to understand for those unfamiliar with the context, but it inadvertently ruined some of the song?...

Author: By Ross S. Weinstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Flight of the Conchords | 4/25/2008 | See Source »

...team discovered that a spring-like mechanism in the birds’ legs helped them keep their balance on uneven ground. The findings, published last week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, have profound implications for developing legs for robots??and, eventually, more mobile prosthetic ones for humans...

Author: By Angela A. Sun, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fowl Fare Well on The ‘Birdwalk’ | 10/17/2006 | See Source »

...bright colors and curvy shapes. Instead, Blue Sky Studios has relied on cooler, deeper colors to contrast their work from Disney’s “rose-colored glasses” animation. Ice Age succeeded in this degree, but its landscapes were vast expanses of neutrally-colored arctic; Robots?? futuristic mechanical world is visually distracting to the point of nausea...

Author: By Kristina M. Moore, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Movie Review: Robots | 3/10/2005 | See Source »

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