Word: self
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...study of self-transformation and the pursuit of self-expression," he said, trying to bring a unifying definition to the diverse elements he described in his speech...
...alter-ego form, The Rentals, and this time the results are promising. In Seven More Minutes, headman Matt Sharp convincingly demonstrates a wealth of creativity and originality underutilized in his subdued role as bassist and back-up vocalist for Weezer. The Rentals' first album, a minimally successful self-titled release, contained the primordial elements of electronically influenced guitar rock in the radio hits "Friends of P." and "Move On" that are fully realized here. Sharps' nonchalant vocals and silly lyrics are melodiously complemented by the omnipresent, wispy voice of Petra, Hayden, creating an eerie, guitar-driven, foot-tapping rock surrealism...
...college students feel (yes, even at Harvard). Epicure's "Airmail" stands out as the best by far. It is softer, slower, more serious, and rather mesmerizing with its unplugged feel--college indie music in Australia isn't all joyful clatter, it seems. Flugelhorn Music, formed in 1997, is the self-proclaimed "new kid on the block as far as independent record labels in Australia are concerned" and "prides itself on the development of its artists through pure hand-on involvement." Even my mainstream music tastes can see that Flugelhorn is doing something right...
Having drifted into each other's orbit, the two soon experience outside pulls. Isa acquires a morbid interest in the comatose girl, whose tragedy allows awed and then self-righteous absorption. Marie clings far too long to a rich, womanising slickster (Gregoire Colin as Chris) who sees a needfulness he can prise open into a raw gaping masochistic dependence. Reading faces, you might judge Isa the worse off, with chipped-tooth and scar-bifurcated eyebrow, but you realize nervewracking and nervous Marie has borne a more interior brand of wear and tear...
...forget Charly (Patrich Mercado) and Fredo (Jo Prestia), two bouncer/bikers with whom Marie and Isa at first spar and then hang out. Sensitive and self-conscious Charly especially is not your stereotypical biker whose modified muffler leaves city canyons quaking. The somewhat roly-poly fellow somberly and touchingly informs Marie that he knows many people are turned off by his weight. Even when the two bikers are pressing rolled-up francs into their friends' hands, for all the implicit paternalistic reek there's not a note of honest care absent...