Word: triumphant
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...subdued albums, the band should be commended for cranking up the volume, letting loose, and creating their shortest album ever. But the results, though promising, aren’t immune to R.E.M.’s recent strains of mediocrity. The single greatest aspect of this album is the triumphant return of Mike Mills’ musicianship. As R.E.M.’s trusty bassist, Mills has been criminally overlooked for decades. Household name Michael Stipe has always been known as a bit of an enigma, Peter Buck has his signature ringing guitar, and Bill Berry?...
...howling refrain, with Danger Mouse’s production giving the song space to swell, breathe, resolve, and disappear. Even so, the album’s conclusion, “Things Ain’t Like They Used to Be,” is its most startling and triumphant success. With the help of young vocalist Jessica Lea Mayfield, not to mention additional organ and guitar support, Auerbach seems to mourn the tattered remains of an old love with a kind of self-denying defiance: “It doesn’t mean a thing...
...polling booths, others lined up for hours on deserted streets, braving threats of violence from extremist groups-yet, by day's end, nearly 65% of the nation's voting population had exercised their franchise. Politicians of all factions proudly strutted before the ballot box, wreathed in flower garlands, sporting triumphant smiles. They were all participating in a process that aims to replace Nepal's 240-year-old monarchy with a secular republic-a transition that, although turbulent, has given this impoverished nation of 27 million newfound optimism...
...administration takes away our liquor-filled pacifier. Rather than hurl accusations of depraved indifference and malice at our superiors, however, we ought to relish in our crime. That old prep school watchword, “don’t get caught,” can at last make its triumphant return to Harvard’s campus...
...more unexpected emulations, which pay off handsomely.“Dark Leaves Form a Thread,” the most immediately catchy song on the album, sounds like a ragged collaboration of Guided By Voices and New Order. The crashing drums and singing guitar build until Bejar shouts the triumphant title line, then the synths kick in and the tune floats gloriously thereafter. His declarations are typically bizarre (“So, should you still want me / You can find me down at the café / A little bit too busy being served / Sworn enemy of the waitresses there?...