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...Mend a Broken Heart?), but this time he excels himself. Shout Out Louds Very Loud Singer Adam Olenius broadcasts his influences with his vocal cords (the Cure's Robert Smith and U2's Bono), but his swing from nonchalant weariness to faint glimmer of hope on this up-tempo heartbreak tune is so winning it almost sounds new. Akon Lonely Senegal-born, U.S.-raised Akon starts his tale of abandonment with typical woe. Then the chorus - a sample of Bobby Vinton's Mr. Lonely, played at Chipmunk speed - arrives, and the song turns into a joke about self-pity...
...after you have pressed the repeat button for the sixth or seventh time will it occur to you that there's not a single original thing about it. I Summon You involves a guy, a girl and a long drive. It's played at a wistful but assured mid-tempo on guitar, bass, drums and keyboards. The chorus goes, "Aww no, where are you tonight?" If your record collection takes up more than a shelf, you already own a dozen variations of this song--and you'll need this one too. It sounds old and feels...
Belying the band’s Harvard roots, as an album A + P feels like an application supplement. Wilkis and Kennedy are clearly eager to show their range, from silly to bleak, up-tempo to slow jam, distortion-heavy to crystal clear. They can do three-chord blues (“The Optimist”). They can play with time signatures (“little gigi”). They can be quasi-political (“America”). The rookie nature of the album is further evinced by its acoustics; lamentably, you can often hear just how small their...
...slowing down of such a usually-rhythmically fast-paced dance was not entirely successful here, as it seemed that the pirouettes sometimes seemed heavy-handed due to the unusually slow tempo of the dance. Here, dancing remarkably in the six of the program’s nine pieces, dancer Lauren E. Chin ’08 was notable for managing to consistently maintain a flowing grace, despite the slowed tempo of the Saudades “salsa...
...Over,” was a rare fast-tempo break in the program, as more lilting slower pieces like “Dacey’s Memory” were set to rolling, soothing violin crescendos. Of course, just when the music became lulling, a sudden spark of energy in each dance would undoubtedly be unfurled. In “Dacey’s Memory,” this came in the form of dissonant piano notes that climaxed to a frustrated crash of chords and immediately caused a fall to silence in the soundtrack...