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...short, light, vocal-oriented, and witty; song three is the emotional punchline, with a memorable chorus and a slow riff to match. The first song on side two, called "ooo," includes both the sounds of hesitant fingers on a guitar neck and a periodic irruption of jazzy trumpet-playing, as if to dramatize some kind of contest between cool, sleek exterior (trumpets) and internal fear or hesitancy (guitar neck sound). These are exactly the kinds of devices that require the songs to be so slow (otherwise we wouldn't notice them), and it's no wonder they were hard...
...says Horowitz. "We don't eat people." But they do incense them no end. Says the Rabin aide: "At least in other settlements, Jews can move around without rubbing it in the face of the Arabs. Not the Hebronites." When they chose their home, the Hebron Jews meant to trumpet their presence in the West Bank. Now the government must contemplate ejecting them to send as vocal a message...
Inside Hebron: Settlers who trumpet their presence...
...repertoire, given undivided attention, will slowly become profound and moving. One of the reasons lies in the Sugargliders' ability--the rarest thing in the world--to integrate melodic neatness with the aforementioned back-beats. "Reinventing Penicillin," for example, could be a good slowed-down New Order song, and "Trumpet Play" nonchalantly imports a soft "jazz" trumpet and jazz-club background noise into the end of what would otherwise be a rolling, groove-oriented late-night "ballad...
...interlocking acoustic guitar tones and undulating beats moves in, and stays for weeks. Whichever Meadows brother is singing-- or half-singing, half-speaking--sets our the lyrics with such understated sincerity that it's impossible to believe the everyday events he's describing--walking out of a jazz club ("Trumpet Play"), reading a newspaper advertisement ("Theme from Boxville")--don't move and amuse him as much as he says they do. Which may lead you to wonder why such everyday events don't move, or amuse, you as often as they...