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...strapped.” The double meaning of “strapped” aside, you can rage against any machine you please and you choose the seatbelt law? DJ Babu saves the day occasionally. “Back Again” is a great single with chipmunked out vocal samples and an insistent guitar loop. “Alarm Clock Music” brings the close-quarters paranoia that’s been floating around the West Coast for years, and “20/20” is stuffed, Bomb Squad-style, to the breaking point...
...newly released album, “Fox Confessor Brings the Flood,” Case’s versatility is showcased over the course of twelve stellar tracks that run the gamut of musical genres. This diverse array of songs is unified by Case’s uncannily expressive vocals and the crack musicianship of her collaborators from fellow alt-Americana acts Calexico, The Sadies, and former member of The Band Garth Hudson. Fans who know Case exclusively through her work with the Canadian power-pop outfit The New Pornographers will be surprised by this album’s grittier...
...through the motions. There’s very little on “Fab Four” that we haven’t seen before stylistically. Here we find the same loose reverb and spacey harmonies, the same collages of cheesy Farfisa-type organ sounds, the same sometimes-baffling vocal lines that sound more like language-learning dictation exercises than pop hooks. This is an eclectic recipe that has worked for Stereolab before, producing 15 years of consistent and occasionally great music. “Fab Four” comes down solidly on the side of consistent. This...
...session. “Optimism was the word of the day,” former Provost Jerry R. Green, an economics professor, said. Professor of Anthropology and of African and African American Studies J. Lorand Matory ’82, who had been one of Summers’ most vocal opponents, quipped, “It was almost a love fest...
...very public airing already. For the good of the University, it’s time to hear the faculty’s side of the story. The only interest served by allowing speculation to continue to trump substance is that of Harvard’s many vocal detractors...