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...eight teams—competing in either the Business Venture track of the competition or the Social Venture track??pitched their business models to an audience of peers, faculty, and family...
...winning team in the Social Venture Track??Urban Water Planners—plans to lease slow sand filters to water vendors in Dar es Salaam to improve the quality of the city’s drinking water...
Sadly, even the more original tracks like “C.P.U.” lack structural interest; chorus meets verse meets chorus until the track fades out. “Hey Elevator” is also frustrating, simply repeating the chorus’ two lines at the track??s end, layering one line upon the other without much tonal or vocal variation. One song, however, does break from this monotony. “Dance Floor,” the album’s first single, succeeds in shaping for itself a dramatic arch. About two minutes...
...There’s a fascinating incongruity between the bleakness of the refrain and its catchiness, as though Stewart wants listeners to sing, “Dear God, I hate myself,” without realizing quite what they’re saying. Additionally, the title track??s rhythms are thoroughly danceable. An underlying, distorted hand-clap beat, is accompanied by emphatically-strummed guitar. Both occasionally spiral into seemingly extemporaneous electronic interludes, but the base beat always returns. The meter brings to mind the driving compositions of New Order, whose music has been influential on Xiu Xiu?...
Several other pieces, such as “She Rode Me Down,” follow in the title track??s motley footsteps. Sharp winds and crashes of a thunderstorm give way to flamenco guitar strumming and maracas, mixing with the quirky tinkle of a glockenspiel, hand claps and a spirited jazz flute. The somber growling of a cello intimates the lyrics Staples croons (“She rode me like a storm / Like a soaking brooding storm”), while the clear, brassy peals of the horn section end the track on a vigorous note. It?...