Word: squeakly
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Three years is a long time to write and record an album. Other bands have done much more in much less time; what went wrong with the Yeah Yeah Yeahs? One possibility is the direction of producer Squeak E Clean, under whom the Yeahs abandoned the roomy, live sound of their debut record. This release finds them with a more heavily-produced, contained sound, much to the new record’s detriment...
...corner of a Manhattan restaurant darker than a crypt, her spiky air makes her subject to countless gape-mouthed stares.) In the nurturing United Nations dynamic the band aspires to, O is the U.S., and when she moved to Los Angeles in 2004 and pushed to hire producer Sam (Squeak E. Clean) Spiegel, the brother of her then boyfriend, director Spike Jonze, Zinner and Chase reluctantly went along. The trio recalls the writing process--which did not go well--with uncomfortable courtesy, as if they're afraid to say anything that might be misconstrued as an insult and regurgitated later...
...lost a pair of one-run pitchers’ duels to Harvard on April 9 to fall to 1-5 in the league, but rebounded to squeak past nine-time defending champion Princeton to take the division by a single game...
...ensemble) and given a list of noises to be produced, as directed by the conductor. Among the requests to snap, stomp, and cluck, was one particularly challenging assignment: “With mouth closed, project the highest and loudest sound you can, very sharply. This should sound like the squeak of a gigantic mouse...
SCHENECTADY, N.Y.—When Sarah Vaillancourt scored her first goal in the third period, ending over 48 minutes of scoreless hockey at Messa Rink in Schenectady, N.Y., it seemed reasonably certain that top-seeded Harvard would squeak by rival Yale and move into the finals of the ECAC Tournament. When she scored for the second time, in sudden-death overtime, there was no doubt, and the Crimson (23-6-3) escaped with...