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Moore, like Stewart, is out to class herself up a bit. She has gracefully apologized for the sonic misadventures of her teen-pop years, and on Coverage, she tries to position herself for the future with versions of Carly Simon's Anticipation, Carole King's I Feel the Earth Move and Joni Mitchell's Help Me. These are eclectic choices that would help define Moore's aesthetic--if only she had one. On Earth, Moore is bold; on Cat Stevens' Moonshadow, she is delicate; and on a particularly bad version of Blondie's One Way or Another, she even tries...
...phrasing to fit the classic material; neither benefits, and the result is an album that feels as if it has been untethered from a cheesy romantic comedy. It's eerily soulless. Moore, like Stewart, is out to class herself up a bit. She has gracefully apologized for the sonic misadventures of her teen-pop years, and on Coverage, she tries to position herself for the future with versions of Carly Simon's Anticipation, Carole King's I Feel the Earth Move and Joni Mitchell's Help Me. These are eclectic choices that would help define Moore's aesthetic - if only...
...Unicorns exhibit a daring disregard for song structure and a fondness for odd sonic ornamentation. The production often sounds both lush and skeletal, electronic touches perching comfortably upon a reliable acoustic foundation. The record alternately buzzes and broods, pops and squawks, gleefully liberated from the boundaries of traditional pop songwriting...
...collapse in exhaustion. Buried in swirls of noise and guitar, the otherwise steady beat on “Supersonic” seems to teeter before its own breakdown. “Right Here’s the Spot” nearly limps under the weight of its sheer sonic detail and insistent...
...club resides right next to fellow sonic haven the Middle East and shares a lot of the same clientele. Both are great places to hear local, national and international acts of varying genres, but T.T.’s is smaller and more comfortable than the Middle East Downstairs. And while the Middle East Upstairs is tinier than T.T.’s, the former venue’s poor acoustics make T.T.’s decent sound quality seem great...