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...past 20 years, the conference, which focuses on advancing women and minorities in science, has honored notables such as Mario Molina, 1995 Nobel prizewinner in chemistry, and mathematics teacher Jaime Escalante, the inspiration for the film “Stand and Deliver...
...tough, soulful and exposed. The duo exhibits an effortless mastery of many classic tropes, employed without pretense to keep the album engaging and honest. Unfortunately the album’s traditional song structures and generally unremarkable music cause the songs to run together, and, at times, it feels like Molina & Johnson are playing the same song with small variations over and over again...
...Molina & Johnson struggle with the limitations of their chosen genre, however, occasionally exhausting their limited supply of musical and thematic tropes. Indicative of the album’s primary shortcoming, “In the Avalon/Little Killer” is a maudlin piano ballad that falls short of the powerful simplicity that “All Gone, All Gone” achieves, and for which it strives. While emotive and marginally moving, the music is fairly boring, never quite leaving the ground. It is chilling, but only slightly so, and while it maintains the unmediated feeling of someone sitting down...
While “Almost Let You In” shows Molina & Johnson pushing their genre to pleasant effect, the tracks that stay comfortably within the genre and play it with an authentic familiarity have just as much merit. Songs like “Twenty Cycles to the Ground” and “Each Star Marks a Day,” while doing nothing to transcend or reinvigorate the genre, are a testament to the preeminent mastery of alt-country exhibited by Molina & Johnson...
...Molina & Johnson’s melancholic strums of acoustic guitar, there are generations of American songwriters and miles of frontier. Both singers have explored a similar fascination with American themes in their other bands. Here, these traditional themes and sounds are omnipresent, and something about Molina & Johnson’s minimalist approach makes them feel better developed. Many similarly spare acts craft their natural sounds. They record separate tracks for fretboard squeaks, chair cricks, and the sound of a thumb dully thumping against the guitar’s body. Here, the sounds feel like natural parts of the recording...