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...WILL L. FLETCHER CONTRIBUTING WRITER We’ve all heard those little ambient noise machines that pump out “nature sounds?? all night and really don’t help anyone sleep. But instead of just smashing the thing, Brooklyn duo High Places have found an actual use for one. On their self-titled debut album, High Places layer cross-cultural melodies over naturalistic soundscapes (think rainforest) with surprising success. At first, it may sound like a mess—discombobulated, slapdash, and just plain weird. But High Places aren’t just some...
...vocals—that the transitions between the two are huge, bright, and explosive. The listener can’t help but cringe at the brief, shamelessly emo spoken-word digression of the Graveyard Girl herself, but it’s forgiven by the time “found sounds?? and computer whirrs lead it out. For a band named after another galaxy, “We Own The Sky” seems like an appropriate Reagan-era boast. The track shimmers with hedonistic abandon, flying high on echoing keyboards and the indulgently meaningless mantra...
...like youth-fueled naïveté, I present to you an artist you might have heard of: M.I.A. The British-born artist’s latest album, “Kala,” is an ode to modern originality. Each song is a tenuous marriage of world sounds??Baile Funk, hip hop, rock, and many more. To some, these tracks may sound like no more than an amalgamation of other people’s prefab music. What M.I.A. creates, however, isn’t simply an amalgamation or a composite; it’s synthesis...
There, on Oct. 6, Shiftee—overcoming animosity from European judges and an audience that seemed to prefer Euro-trash techno over his experimental hip-hop sounds??captured first place in the Battle for World Supremacy...
...voice is clearly well-trained and quite colorful. But his acting is for the most part forgettable, rarely commanding attention on stage. Such a lack of expressiveness, coupled with Kroncke’s lethargic movements, often results in his being overshadowed by more dominant presences or sounds??such as Woolf’s enrapturing voice...