Word: songfulness
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...alive? Is he insane? Can he come home? And what does it all have to do with the David Bowie title song? We don't know, and the pilot doesn't bother making it plausible, but it does play up the time-travel culture-clash aspects for all they're worth. Even the predictable situations - Sam mentions his cell phone to a cop who answers, "You need to sell what?" - pay off. (A more somber, striking moment: Sam looks up after he comes to and sees the gleaming new Twin Towers of the World Trade Center.) But the real fascination...
...well.Influenced heavily by nature and their own spirituality, Trapper creates interesting tunes through light guitar chords and multiple keyboards, offering a sound reminiscent of Neil Young with a dash of Bob Dylan. Their album kicks off with “Sleepytime in the Western World,” a song detailing a nightmare about isolation in the occident. Despite the gloomy sentiments of the track, the music itself is strangely happy and doesn’t mesh with the lyrics. While a strange mix of elements such as seemingly symbolic images (“And as I finally tried...
...their love of global ethnic music with their snoozing troubles. Behind the ambience and space, the music is actually quite complex and sophisticated, especially given the band’s make-up: a duo of a multi-instrumentalist (Rob Barber) and a singer (Mary Pearson). From the very first song, “The Storm,” the band delves into its diverse musical lexicon with a melody reminiscent of traditional Indian folk music. Unfortunately, in the case of this particular track, Pearson’s nursery-rhyme lyrics and vocals don’t quite match the intricacies...
...With the release of their debut album, “Youth & Young Manhood,” they were hailed for creating a unique brand of southern 70s style rock ‘n’ roll that was raw and gritty. Despite their raspy vocals and unpolished tunes, their songs were still strangely catchy, and were built on a raw and genuine vitality. Only a hint of this earlier sound remains in “Night.” It’s the furthest the Kings of Leon have ventured from their roots, and it lands them...
...horrors of genocide.“Senselessness” may be 142 pages of stream-of-consciousness thoughts that inevitably digress, but it is far from senseless. These page-long sentences are a haunting mélange of the voices of alive-yet-dead Indian survivors, a song drilled into the head of the narrator, who is eventually overcome by these ghosts of the past. Moya’s descriptive language captures the narrator’s progressive deterioration, so that by the end of the book, the author makes us wonder if we haven’t lost...