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...orchestral percussion. With a switch to a major key near the end, the song’s brooding quality eventually gives way to a lighter tone, but its passion is maintained. The track ends on a truly epic note, as the full choir’s harmony and the percussion??s deep rumblings ascend to a point of almost religious fervor...
...quest to discover just how “modern” modern ballet will become. With each of its three episodes—“Break the Eyes,” “Polyphonoia,” and “Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion??—“New Visions,” which ran March 1-4 at the Citi Wang Theatre in Boston, demonstrated a deeply introspective, wildly innovative, and technically challenging dance form...
...course of an entire album while eluding the joint specter of drudgery and repetition.Yet rather than a sprawling masterwork, “So This is Goodbye” is a cohesive album, whose melodic bass lines issue taut rejoinders to lazy keyboard echoes, delicate synth arpeggios, and efficient percussion??complete with judicious handclaps, especially on “First Time” (alas, sans cowbell).Despite the album’s electro-sheen and programmatic counterpoint, singer Jeremy Greenspan’s high, reverb-enhanced vocals imbue the tracks with a necessary human element.Indeed, Greenspan?...
...Good Kids Make Bad Grown Ups” starts the album out pleasantly enough, with synthesized strings fluttering around Pink’s echoing vocals, building up a Sunday morning haze that envelops the damp percussion??is it a drum machine or just some dude beatboxing? Lyrically he more recites blurry jingles and scraps of melody than pronounces anything particularly relevant, using his voice as just another instrument in the fray. In tone he alternates here between a fairly lucid baritone and a whining falsetto, a trend that holds up throughout the disc. This tendency toward wild fluctuations...
...first listen, the instruments employed by Yorkston and The Athletes—acoustic guitars, piano and light percussion??seem borrowed from Peter, Paul and Mary. Yet the band also employs mandolins, clappers and bouzoukis, in an apparent attempt to lend the record a cosmopolitan flavor...