Word: transcendental
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To simply label the second track on the album, the 20:03 “House of Sun,” as “sort of boring” would not entirely be doing it justice, despite the fact that in truth, it is sort of boring. A more...
Bassist Ric Fierabracci, who fills in for John Patitucci on the American tour, was no disappointment. His virtuosic playing and highly original solos were a pleasure throughout. From “Johnny’s Landing” the band went to “Alan Corday,?...
The songs shine: despite slightly subpar sound quality—the guitars are a little jangly and inaudible at times (check out the horribly articulated guitar solo on the upbeat “Loretta”), the bass sometimes drops out of the mix and the drums sound a little...
Listening to Sufjan Stevens, 29-year-old songwriter and rising folk darling (even Pitchfork loves him), is one such sanctuary, a slightly dark, unabashedly earnest and hopeful experience. With the delicate voice of a young man who’s just losing his world-weary reticence, Sufjan (pronounced SOOF-yan...
BILL: Well, Chris, you’ve surely stumbled upon a fantastic tribute to drugs, a fully realized study and celebration of self-medication. Smile can’t respond to that sort of cohesive vision; for more than thirty years it existed only unfinished as fragments tucked away on...