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...electronically produced and how much of it is just Oberst’s studio band. Either way, there’s much more here (and somehow, much less) than a boy and a guitar: the mix is thick with drums, synthesized instrumentation, and gee-wiz effects. The first track, “Time Code,” opens with two minutes of electronic noodling accompanied by bizarre background panting, presumably from an onanistic Oberst. Just in case the avant wheezing didn’t let you know how arthouse the album is, there are eleven more masturbatory songs of offbeat...
Working with a successful mainstream artist like Harris relaxes Oberst’s alt-country pretensions somewhat, resulting in a few unapologetically fragile songs. But these tracks are still a far cry from the music of Oh Holy Fools or even Lifted, severely lacking in the deep-blush emotional candor of his earlier work. The single off of I’m Wide Awake, “Lua,” is clearly an attempt to reintroduce that sense of sincerity. Oberst sings “Lua” without any kind of accompaniment, going for the quiet, tortured style...
...Bambi stays true to Total’s formula. Track after track pummel the listener with disorienting lyrics that somehow have the same effect whether they’re in French, German and English: a fun sleaze, a purposeful blow-up of our conceptions of Euro-trash culture. “I am Naked,” the album’s lead single, is a prime example, as German singer Brezel Goring prattles on in kitty-cat vocals at a second-grade register about the virtues of nudity. The bad translations (and the frequent intrusion of a gruff gravelly...
...velocity and an actual guitar line; but, of course, this is after three minutes of foods listed in French alternating with a chorus of “I am hungry / Cause you’re not here any more / Hungry / Me so hungry!” The next track, “Ne M’Appelle Pas Ta Liche” continues in the speedy surf-rock of “Hungry!” with an added degree of cool and almost desperation in the chorus’ exit of “deteste...
Kirby wrote he would focus future growth of the faculty in the category of non-tenured professors. To encourage the recruitment of young scholars, departments can label associate professorships as tenure-track positions, he wrote...