Word: songfulness
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...album opens with a relentless, heavily distorted bass line in “Jique,” which carries the song to an eerie, heavenly bridge before descending once again into the dance-inspiring mire of bass. “Never Met a German,” a Bloc Party-esque rock track, has Sciubba fantasizing about being a general, telling the listener, “I almost have an orgasm when the tanks are rolling/ Crashing through the borders...
This is a perfect up-tempo intro for the following track “Sweatshop,” which is quite possibly the epitome of chill. The song starts with a pristine beat and xylophone line and then enters a trance-like mood as Sciubba echoes in French over dreamy, subtle synth. At its halfway mark, it picks up pace with steady bass and sends the dreamy feeling of the song to a crescendo...
...later, equally addictive track, appropriately entitled “Nicotine,” inspires the feeling of blissful laziness. Leading with a quiet snare drum-roll followed by Sciubba’s languid lyrics that drift through the song like smoke, the song has the effect of an ocean shore or an open field...
...blunders seem to come in the middle of the second disc, even the rest of the tracks seem like throwbacks to a time that to many younger listeners just sounds too eighties. “Dara Factor Two” opens with the brushes of a synth-heavy pop song and can’t manage to recover, conjuring up images of neon pink and black outfits and primitive special effects in music videos...
Over 500 tickets were sold for the concert, Kwon said, although older community members seemed to greatly outnumber the students in the audience. Many spectators were affiliated with one of the two Boston-area choirs, the Sharing a New Song Chorus and the Boston Community Choir, which also performed some of the pieces alongside Sinikithemba last night...