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...Give It Lose It Take It,” opens the album on a fairly promising note, marked by xylophones, Beatles guitar, and compelling vocals set over an up-tempo beat. Early hopes are dashed, though, by the entrance of a cheesy synth midway through the song that quickly turns it into the soundtrack of an old Nintendo game...
...East London is a vampire / It sucks the joy right out of me,” shouts Okereke. “Hunting for Witches” expands upon Bloc Party’s typical dance beats with a much more electronic feel that leads with layered sound bites and synth bass before the entrance of live drums and distorted guitar chords. Although it’s easy to get swept away by Bloc Party’s melodies, a closer look at the lyrics reveals a discussion of England’s recent bus attacks and the ensuing terrorist witch...
...startling the listener to bittersweet effect. The best example is “A Sentences of Sorts in Kongsvinger.” Leadman Kevin Barnes sings, “I spent the winter on the verge of a total breakdown while living in Norway” over an irrepressible synth, making it impossible to decide whether to dance or to cry. Most of the album consists of catchy drum machine beats and happy electronic melodies. However the album’s turning point, “The Past Is a Grotesque Animal,” is repetitive and almost...
...brought free pens and knitting to Canaday basement, I’ve started to reconsider my misguided post-feminism. As a campus leader, I should spend my time encouraging women to run for the UC, and protesting a male-dominated faculty, not listening to misogynistic hip-hop with uncomfortable synth beats. 143 I love my DG sisters! *See abovetheinfluence.com or http://boss.streamos.com/download/federal/aspen/ondcp100606_jenny.mov. —Kristina M. Moore ’08 is outgoing Arts Chair and incoming President of The Crimson. She’s trying really hard not to sell out or buy a BlackBerry...
...Hell Hath No Fury” even tighter. . “Hello New World” is probably the best track Pharrell has mixed in a couple of years (apart from “Trill,” this recording’s knives-out club banger). Simple synth string lines surge and disappear, stabbing through the sounds of a protesting bass drum and a cracked cowbell. Pharrell’s so proud of his beats that he demands and gets a verse on “Mr. Me Too.” They can’t sink...