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Like their minimalist Teutonic predecessors, Couch keep it simple. The instrumentation is piano, bass, guitar, drums, with occasional subtle strings or horns. Piano parts often serve as second bass lines, guitars pluck high harmonic, and drums are generally satisfyingly Zeppelin-like. The real beauty of the album, though, comes from the strong melodies—every track is pretty, and “Everything on Traces” (“Alle auf Pause”) and the opening “Plan” are gorgeous. Song structures may be straightforward, but never boring. As great minimalists from Steve...
...patented Ramones chants: "Hey ho, let's go!" over a fast tom-tom pattern. Suddenly the guitar and bass came in, and the effect was like a plane taking off; you felt driven back into your seat. It was the heavy unison riffs we loved so much on Led Zeppelin records, but without the silly Tolkeinesque or savagely misogynistic lyrical maunderings on top. And it was much faster than Zeppelin; it seemed like it was twice the tempo of anything else I was hearing...
...anthemic “Ich Will,” brief ambient soundscapes make the whole track greater than the sum of its parts. The same can especially be said for the opening track, “Mein Herz Brennt,” the best industrial-speed-metal song Led Zeppelin never recorded. Of course, Rammstein is still a band in transition; the latter half of Mutter is filled with the sort of flimsy Ministry imitations (“Zwitter,” “Rein Raus”) that kept Sehnsucht from receiving serious critical acclaim. The group?...
...special guest, Ari Hest, hailing from New York City, took to the stage next. Hest followed his Midwestern college tour with this return to Boston for the first time since infancy and proved himself to be an exceptional performer. Hest emulates his influences: Toto, the Police, Radiohead, Led Zeppelin, Jeff Buckley, and Lenny Kravitz. His acoustic rock, which reveals some jazz and funk tendencies, is often equated with the sounds of Sting, Dave Matthews Band, and Buckley. His strong vocals, hardly daunted by higher registers, also contributed to an impressive...
...that fact itself embarrasses some psychiatrists, who would rather not think of themselves as well-educated electricians. Not all psychiatric residents learn electroshock. Younger psychiatrists are more ambivalent about it than older ones, according to a 1999 survey. After all, even the latest electroshock devices look something like Led Zeppelin-era stereo equipment. They are based on technology so old the FDA says they predate its regulatory authority (the agency has classified the devices in the category it uses for equipment whose risks are high or unknown). The website for the Thymatron, the Cadillac of electroshock devices, still features...