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...symphony of beats, percussion, found sound, distorted vocals and more beats. All in all, it is percussion--of every imaginable shape and color--that marks the album. Obsessed with cramming as many percussive hits into as small a time space as possible, James loads the album with polyrhythms, crazed snare hits and percussive sequences that simply cannot be described by words. When he occasionally pulls away the percussion, letting his ethereal, ghostly melodies rise to the top of the mix, it is like a breath of fresh air before he pulls the listener once again into the maelstrom...
This account may seem to indicate that Come To Daddy is a cacophonous, nearly unlistenable mess, which is not the case at all. The amount of percussion is matched only by James's care in crafting his music--each snare hit, cymbal crash and synthesizer note is there for a reason. The complexity of the arrangements serves to emphasize that this is music that cannot be internalized in one listen, and, indeed, Come To Daddy is not for everyone...
When the four members of The Kelley Deal 6000 ascended the stage wearing mounted snare drums, the gesture heralded a set that would be anything but predictable. Deal stepped up to the mic, said a quick hello to the anxious crowd and tapped her snare drum four times to count off "Total War." In unison, the band chanted the monotone lyrics and pounded a martial drum cadence. To the surprise of many in the audience who attended the show because of Deal's Breeders legacy, the song consisted only of drums and vocals. The opening, however, evidenced the bold direction...
...women tore into the December stretch, the team rolled on, stretching its record to 7-0 with wins over Brandeis, Columbia and St. John's. Harvard held tight against the latter two, managing key wins at the end of the meets to snare 17-15 and 19-13 wins, respectively...
...Puritans weren't alone in their suspicion of the icon. The next wave of settlers in the Northeast, the Quakers, led by William Penn, despised most arts. Music was a distraction, poetry (beyond the simplest hymns) a snare. So the lack of Quaker painting is hardly a surprise, though some artists--most conspicuously Benjamin West--came from Quaker families and left the faith. The only painter who lived and died a Quaker was the Philadelphia "primitive" Edward Hicks (1780-1849), and he felt moral qualms about...