Word: sound
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...little more subdued in this album, and the band seems more removed from the music, in part because of the introduction of new computerized effects, but the basic good stuff is still there. The band's best and perhaps most distinguishing feature--the surprising little vignettes of sound which switch you, with no attempt at subtlety, into a deliciously different musical genre for a few bars--makes itself felt in force: there's a '90s-style funk surprise in "Ode to Maybe" and even a hint of opera in "Red Summer Sun." Once again, the album demonstrates 3EB's versatility...
...Lockgroove was described by the Boston Phoenix as "the most astounding rock band to emerge from Boston in quite some time," and has received accolades from the Boston Globe, the Boston Herald, Stuff@Night, Billboard and other publications. Their heavy, dense sound, while full of feedback and distortion, is at times almost blissful. It's an interesting sound, a mix of the dramatic and tender, full of sonic experiments but still ready to rock...
Originally a surfer band and nothing more, the Beach Boys always retained a corny novelty sound that combined with their dated harmonizing and often nave lyrics to make them less than popular at present. Yet in their day they were America's best rock band, peaking in 1966 with their Pet Sounds album, which topped the charts in Britain, outselling even the Beatles' Revolver...
...unprejudiced listener will probably be able to understand their former popularity; indeed, a lot of the Beach Boys' sound still exists in modern music. It's hardly recognizable without the beach-party harmonzing, but it's there. As a band of handsome youths that, with increasing self-consciousness, sang songs of innocence, the legacy they left is a bifurcated...
...Frank Leonard for President. The phrase has a certain ring to it, a sound one can only obtain if lucky enough to have a proper name for both first AND last name. Frank Leonard for President meets me in the courtyard of Kirkland House. I am led to a seemingly modest room in a Kirkland entryway, but what lies behind its door is no tame student residence--it is the campaign war room of Frank Leonard for President. From this well-equipped room complete with schedules and strategies on the wall, a vacuumed carpet, bottles of vodka on the mantle...