Word: wail
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...cannot think of a single composer, painter or writer who has not tracked at least one major inspiration to a bird, a tree, a rose. People automatically lose themselves in wordless reverence at the sight of a curlew or a silver cloud of anchovies or at the mournful wail of howler monkeys. Or they stare dumbly out at oceans, as if longing for their microbial past...
...years, the undergraduate arts community has raised its voice in a collective wail, bemoaning the dearth of performance space on campus...
...difficult to ascribe credit in this case because we don't know where Hutchence ends and his posthumous producing team begins. Regardless, the work rarely falters, except occasionally in the lyrics' poetic expression. It's very eerie, considering the scandal and controversy surrounding Hutchence's death to hear him wail "I just wanna slide away and come alive again" on the parting "Slide Away," but fortunately, the music makes you celebrate his art rather than lament the man's death. It's definitely a keeper...