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...days. Gone are the disco guitars of 1996's First Band on the Moon and instead replaced with buzzing drones and techno beats. These qualities come out especially well in the rhythmically complex "Erase/Rewind" and the lackadaisical, sweet melody line of "Junk of the Hearts." The arrangements are sparser, the rhythms more urgent; The Cardigans' music isn't especially memorable, but like good angel cake it can be very tasty...
...Steve's latest band is Shellac. He playsguitar and sings, Bob Weston plays bass, and ToddTrainer drums. Their sound is sparser, funkier,still aggressive and loud, but significantly morerepetitive, less interesting and lessground-breaking than Big Black. My roommate heard"My Black Ass," the first song on their '94 LPAt Action Park, and asked, "Is this RageAgainst the Machine?" (It only took me a week orso to speak to him again.) Steve has announcedthat all Shellac songs are about either Canada orbaseball. Steve is now 36, and his indiecredibility is fading fast...
Oliveira builds on the sexuality, religion and Faustian philosophy of the convent setting and tries to weave a new, intricate twist into the good vs. evil plot. But after 90 minutes of sparse dialogue, sparse interaction and even sparser coherence, "The Convent" ends with an inexplicable supernatural occurence--inexplicable in that it does not complete, expand or shed light on any previous theme. With its too frequent literary and biblical references and the overwhelmingly stark, gripping scenery, "The Convent" strives toward artsy epic but falls somewhere in the midst of artsy mediocrity...
SOUTHERN AFRICA'S ARTISTIC RECORD is much sparser. Scientists have unearthed a pendant made from a seashell that may be more than 40,000 years old, carved bones and beads made from ostrich eggshells that probably date from around 27,000 B.P., and paintings on slabs of rock in a Namibian cave that may be nearly as old. But like Australia's Aborigines, southern Africa's indigenous people carried on their rock-art tradition into modern times, confusing anthropologists' tasks considerably...
...reach a "state of chaos" and that camps housing some of the 200,000 internally displaced Salvadorans suffered from high instances of malnutrition and disease. They found that food from the U.S. AID program which the Salvadoran military had responsibility for distributing appeared in the camps in cheaper and sparser form. In the prisons, they saw the scars left on hundreds of prisoners by military and paramilitary torture. Then, two days after they returned to the U.S., Congress rectified El Salvador for showing improvements in human rights...