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...good album. That is not to say that the traditional new wave and shoegaze traits aren’t visible in “Get Color,” their sophomore studio outing. The indelible stamp of My Bloody Valentine can be heard in Jake Duzsik’s vocals. Whereas Kevin Shields and Bilinda Butcher’s heavily dubbed harmonies were central to that band’s sound, Duzsik attempts to recreate that kind of sound individually, singing between tenor and contralto through a rather liberal use of reverb. He successfully generates an effect of androgyny...
...styles, creating a record of intoxicating melodies. With her breakout hit “I’m Like a Bird,” off 2000’s Grammy-winning “Whoa, Nelly!,” Furtado likely could have developed her career solely around her vocal talent and pop style. But in 2003, Furtado chose to abandon pop in favor of less radio-friendly folk music on the tepidly received “Folklore.” For her next album, she tried another route, that of the R&B singer. Collaborating with Timbaland...
...lucha” (Harvard, listen, we are in a fight), roughly 50 protesters picketed outside the Holyoke Center, denouncing what they called Harvard’s greed and calling for shared sacrifice by administrators. Geoff P. Carens, a Harvard librarian and union member who frequently organizes such vocal protests, ridiculed the University for saying that it was in the midst of a fiscal crisis and had to lay off workers when the endowment still stands at $26 billion...
...when news was confirmed that the U.S. had scrapped plans to place part of a missile-defense shield in a military zone near the town, Jan Neoral, the mayor of Trokavec and a vocal anti-missile-shield campaigner, announced with uncharacteristic understatement that President Barack Obama's decision was "a satisfaction." (Read "Obama Shelves U.S. Missile Shield: The Winners and Losers...
...Ironically, Charlesview residents were once among the most vocal critics of the relocation plan...