Word: tranquillity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This meshing of eras is most effective on the standout track "Porcelain." Crackling with the sounds of a vintage record player and a wordless chorus, the song ebbs and flows with synthesized vocals and drumbeats, all carried by tranquil New Age piano...
...Their tranquil, folky sound was once dubbed "dream pop," so the Irish quartet spent most of the 1990s trying to dispel that label (and its implied wimpyness) by veering into rough-edged rock. Bury the Hatchet deftly reverses course, scaling back the band's vision from the worldly to the personal and unearthing the contemplative style that got lost in layers of guitar noise. The band has rediscovered where its allure lies: in carefully sculpted songs that aren't too overpowering...
...Calm, tranquil, quiet. Besides the chatterings of a few techies doing last-minute painting, the Loeb Mainstage is empty two hours before dress rehearsal begins. The seemingly lifeless theater is like a bear in winter, hibernating until the next performance...
...Calm, tranquil, quiet. Besides the chatterings of a few techies doing last-minute painting, the Loeb Mainstage is empty two hours before dress rehearsal begins. The seemingly lifeless theater is like a bear in winter, hibernating until the next performance...
...TOURISTY SITES: The Cloisters, Fort Tryon Park, Washington Heights. (923-3700): The Metropolitan Museum's tranquil uptown outpost houses illuminated manuscripts, ancient reliquaries, the Unicorn Tapestries and the rest of the Met's collection of Medieval art. The land, the art and even the view are courtesy of John D. Rockefeller (he bought up the stretch of New Jersey shoreline visible from the grounds so that no one could build anything on it and ruin his view...