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Kolarik, meanwhile, is a 5’10, 195-lb. sparkplug who occasionally makes like Sonic the Hedgehog and skates through people twice his size. He’s the team’s emotional barometer, a vocal leader with a penchant for scoring big goals in big games. He can change the momentum with one shift, whether he scores or not. “The kid’s the heart and soul of our program,” Fried said...
Found sounds (vocal snippets and a veritable orchestra of instruments) come and go over ramshackle rhythms, sounding so nimble and newly alive they border on stream-of-consciousness. You’re bombarded on all sides by sounds from all times. It doesn’t hurt that Doom has the flow to match, a drunken rambling full of non-sequiturs and bizarre metaphors as jubilantly lyrical as anything from hip-hop’s early Nineties golden age. Sampladelic psychedelia at its best...
...music, taking some surprising and ambitious turns in order to keep the pretensions light-footed. The garage strut of “Take The Bit Between Your Teeth” sounds like Jack White might if he were a girl, and went to art college. But Susman has some vocal chops entirely her own: the supersonic double punch she delivers on “On Parade” is neither screech nor wail, but somewhere between a radar ping and a rock ‘n roll yelp. In fact, for all its artsyness, the music is irrepressibly, slyly cool...
...aids patients to chatting with coal miners?the common touch hasn't trickled down to China's provincial leaders, who are widely viewed as aloof and corrupt. Without any recourse on the local level, the mainland's disenfranchised see little choice but to head to the capital. Their increasingly vocal calls for justice show that despite China's economic expansion, many citizens are simmering with discontent. NPC petition offices, one of many venues in Beijing for accepting citizen complaints, say they received about 20,000 petitions last year, up 30% from 2002. The success rate of China's petitioners...
...confidence. The influence of conventionally gifted rock bands like The Wrens and Spoon is all over the place. The band seem to genuinely want to put together an album showing their deep association with everything that stands for indie rock today. Carnival casio synth, unexpected drum machine beats, interweaving vocal lines and stupid lyrics they probably regard as esoteric make it seem they might be trying too hard to capture this sound. Take for example “Trunk of My Car,” which starts out in a ghastly a capella round with lyrics awful enough to match...