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...album begins with “The Code,” a fuzzy and futuristic spoken-word track. Toward its end a melody enters, melting into the album’s first real song, “Dream About the Future.” The track opens with a piano meditation on the same two chords, layered with drums, the band’s characteristic synthesizer, and quirky sound effects. Frontman Schneider soon interjects, “When I tell you that I need you / You don’t believe me.” Achingly whiny and painfully clich?...
Though these lyrics may be cheesy, they tie to the album’s 15th track, “Wings Away,” in which Schneider sings, “So we open up and scream / Until it all becomes a dream.” In this instance, the lyrical interplay effectively invokes two separate concepts of dreaming. On other tracks, however, lyrical motifs become merely repetitive, most obviously in the dialogue between “C.P.U.,” “Floating in Space,” and “Nobody...
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...
Despite a cold and rainy afternoon, the Harvard men’s and women’s track and field teams put in strong performances on Saturday in New Haven, Conn. While the men’s squad came up just short of the Bulldogs for the eighth year in a row, the Crimson women soundly defeated Yale...
With the Yale meet behind them, the Harvard men’s and women’s track teams look to move forward to the Penn Relays in Philadelphia, Pa. this week and the Heptagonal Championships in Princeton, N.J. starting...