Word: uh
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...good thing, but the distancing and mellowing effect of the album seems consistent with the last lines of “smells like content:” “Expectation leads to disappointment. / If you don’t expect something big, huge, and exciting / usually uh, I don’t know, it’s just not as, yeah.” On this note, the Book’s newest album succeeds on their terms, in making a uniquely melodic socio-culturally synthesized soundscape—but don’t expect anything big, huge...
...Uh, no,” Lawler says. “But they should...
...think the shorts are maybe more, uh, advantageous than the headband, because the shorts look like you’re resilient to the weather. With the headband, people thought I was trying to be a jock…[and] my general demeanor, nerdy interests, musical interests worked against that image as well. So I think I made a lot of enemies and had a lot of people judge me before I got to actually meet them and give them a little of what I really have to offer...
...hails from “Damnhattan” (we assume he’s talking about the, uh, Upper “Beast” Side) and is rumored to be the son of a prominent liberal columnist, has an Eminem vibe going on until he starts singing over the chorus, when things turn decidedly Vanilla Ice. Not like “Toxic” has ever featured a particularly pleasant vocal track, but sometimes you gotta know when to draw the whiteboy line...
...Wilco in there, especially because A Ghost Is Born is certainly more experimental than some earlier releases, but look at what it beat out: Björk’s Medulla, Modest Mouse’s Good News for People Who Like Bad News, PJ Harvey’s Uh Huh Her, and Franz Ferdinand’s eponymous release. A Ghost Is Born is just tired Americana and distorted guitar. Franz Ferdinand’s album barnstormed first into intense critical approval, universally, and then into national ubiquity on the strength of “Take...