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Peck opens with a very pretty Gabriel-esque tune, "Lover." He sounds a bit like Pete, and breathes the lyrics with the same sense of urgency Many of the chord progressions and vocal shouts also sound like something from Gabriel's So. But add in some folksy guitar strums molded into a synth line, and the intensity loses out to a studio-induced banal sheen. This recurs on almost all of the tunes, for Peck's voice cannot seem to outsing the acoustic guitar and keyboard arrangements backing him. His voice tends to be too flat, lacking the depth that...
Because there isn't much plot to speak of, the success of the Pudding depends on the actors' ability to make their one-dimensional characters consistently funny and interesting. Fortunately, through clever stage business and vocal skill, most of them are successful. Fish is hilarious as repetitive Ramses Pointacross...
...underground," which not coincidentally, is what the entirety of their new album is about. As I'm sure you'll find out next week. Memo to Jake Kreilkamp: if you don't get all the mods and rockers reference and say what Buddy Holly song Pavement stole the vocal riff in "Silence Kit" from, your lose...
...just as unsettled as the f'd-up situation singer Christina Billotte is describing, but that's clear enough for every note to count. "Don't You Ever?" which opens the record, has a similar economy of means, and is similarly stunning: in this case it's the vocal melody, the way the last two vowels get stretched out in "Don't you ever wanna know?" that sticks in my head for hours. In "Poison Arrows Shot at Heroes," it's the way the title line of the song falls by seven notes or so in less time than...
...opera circles merely contributes to his sense on loyalty. It is the fallibility of the diva, the tension between her polished star exterior and the human being beneath, that ensures her appeal. Divas are subject as well to a society that views them as bizarre aberrations of nature, supernatural vocal powers; as Koestenbaum points out, the "velvet cord" that separated the diva from her richer and socially more elite audience in the 17th and 18th centuries still exists, albeit invisibly, and the diva's fame is hard-won and hard-kept once she is past her vocal prime...