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...left the stage, only to return for the increasingly requisite encore performance (the second encore is the new encore, after all). The finale was begun with a cover of “Inside of You,” by the similarly outlandish countryish troubadour named Tom Jans. The song reflected a lot of Oldham’s own tendencies, including his bizarrely overt and yet endearing tendency to inject sexual references into otherwise Platonic enough songs of love lost and found (well, mostly lost). The group followed this cover with a beautiful, shuffling version of pre-bluegrass classic...
...elegiac “Only Someone Running” was followed by a song from Oldham’s Joya called “Idea & Deed,” which is his own adaptation of a traditional song called “Both Sides the Tweed.” Bonnie then announced a new track, called “Four Screams,” proclaiming: “You’ve never heard this before.” This ended up being one of the group’s only real interactions with the crowd. It wasn?...
David L. Blazer ’06, a choreographer for the performance, was inspired by the music of Philip Glass––in particular the song “Morning Passages”––to create his modern piece, “Something...
...what does it all mean? I’m tempted to think it’s self-directed, an expression of how trapped the band feels by the sound they created for themselves. Indeed, the song begins in the tower, in a musical style very similar to past releases, but as windmill-island emerges above the clouds the song shifts to a new jangly guitar-driven, genuinely pretty chorus. A new direction? Blur? Perhaps. Or perhaps their angel dust wasn’t so pure after...
First things first: If you haven’t heard “Rebellion (Lies)” already, do whatever you need to rectify that problem immediately. I don’t just say that because I think that it’s an unstoppably great song, or that the Arcade Fire are destined to become the Great Band of Our Generation, or that their debut LP, “Funeral,” is a never-ending mine of inspirational songcraft, although I do think all of these things. I say it because it?...