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Vanessa Carlton coos in her new song, “White Houses,” the lamentation, “we grew up way too fast.” At last Thursday’s screening of Inside Out, a documentary about the harsh reality of teen motherhood, the lyrics of this piece of contemporary pop took on a whole new meaning...
...Harvard Glee Club facing off against the Yale Glee Club in their annual pregame musical showdown. As usual, the glee clubs will be singing football tunes as well as others from their repertoire, so if you feel like some early celebrating, join Harvard schoolmates in supporting our school with song. $14 - $19, $7 - $9 seniors and students available online. Friday Nov. 19 at 8 p.m. Sanders Theater...
...accumulate a steady rhythm that becomes set off by the inclusion of a tambourine and emerging discordant notes. The mood is abruptly shattered by an amazing intrusion of loud beating drums and heavily distorted guitar at 5:10. The groove that is created is shattered twice more in the song, as it switches gears to an extremely rapid drum beat accompanied by rock guitar and then again at 7:10 when the drums and guitar shift genre evocations to an almost upbeat ska sound. By the song’s end, the listener has no idea how he got from...
This long composition is followed by the album’s shortest tracks, which again show this rapid shifting of genres: “TRAS3,” containing heavily echoed psych guitars that with a little more echo could potentially be the moody background to a Tool song, puts the listener into a reverie which is startlingly succeeded by the immediate kick of loud and upbeat drums starting “IPT2,” which makes use of numerous heavily-effected guitar and synths, and ends after 1:49, right when it leads the listener to believe...
This duo is followed by the longest and most intriguing piece, “BTTLS.” The song plays with the creation of mood and space via Neubaten-like organically metallic acoustic-industrial sounds, the violation of this space’s rules through rapidly repeating and panned clicks and cut-and-pasted sounds that pop in and out with no effort to hide their digital artifice or artificiality. Sounds unpredictably enter and exit the space, and an extremely creepy alien groaning/breathing noise pervades the background of the piece’s midsection. In the last third...