Word: turneritis
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...this casualness is the nature of the sessions. “It’s not a performance so much as it’s a social gathering,” Lindsay K. Turner ’07, the Celtic Club’s founder, says. And while members remain dedicated to these intimate gatherings of their club, they have also recently made efforts to play to a larger audience. But Harvard has seemed reluctant to listen...
...playing “Halo.” “It’s become a kind of tradition…people ask me, ‘Hey, are we playing ‘Halo’ tonight?’” he says. For Turner, who describes himself as “not a big partying type of person,” video games provide an alternate way of connecting with people. “It just works better for me socially to invite people to play video games,” he says.That...
When they finally slow down for the not-entirely-convincing ballad “Riot Van,” they’ve have already run through six amped-up numbers and they only keep it mellow for two minutes. However, Turner and company regain their footing and the album closes with “A Certain Romance,” a wonderfully observed tale of love among the young and stupid...
Arctic Monkeys don’t bring anything especially new to the crowded garage-band potluck, but they’ve done a good job of sampling from the genre’s different tastes. Their guitars rattle and scream like those of the Hives, Turner occasionally shout-sings à la Bloc Party’s Kele Okereke, and many of the pseudo-poppy melodies sound like a super-charged version of the Kaiser Chiefs...
...Anticipation has a habit to set you up / for disappointment,” Turner sings, but a few lines later he assures us that “Tonight there’ll be a ruckus, yeah, regardless of what’s gone before.” And he’s right: as long as you don’t anticipate the best album ever, you’ll have a great time enjoying the ruckus...