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...noise was described by many students assounding somewhat musical. Michael S. Masland '95said, "There was one big noise, like a bass, withthis repetitive noise, the jackhammer, on top ofit. It sounded like music...
Robert is a musician aspiring toward a career in record producing. Even without his guitar and bass, he taps out silent harmonies on the counter tops and register keys. He sleeps a lot during the day to make up for his nocturnal nine-to-five shifts...
Frances Gumm, which has toured with Pavement (and now is based in St. Paul) developed a simpler sound you could duplicate night after night, show after show: short songs, no jazz, no instrumentals, with the melody locked up in the jumpy bass lines. Eric, the singer, started singing as if his lungs were being torn from his body and his liver ripped apart by vultures every time the two-line choruses began. Cruella is therefore one of the year's most emotionally wrenching rock records, if you can get used to the singing; the whole package reminds...
...covered Alias' Tommy Keene reissue; what could that mid-sized record company do to top that? This: you can now get, on one CD, the first three records by the best American pop group of the 1980s. Get past the "new-wave" production--flat drums, brassy synths, quiet bass--and enjoy the startlingly syncopated, intricately intellectual pop craft of main guy Scott Miller, whose love of complication used to get in the way of lyrical clarity (and in the way of his collegiate love life, if you believe the lyrics he wrote) but never stopped him from writing a catchy...
...most. Far from being lush or orchestral, Game Theory's sound is always crisp (there's barely any reverb or delay on this entire CD, and when there is, it's a special effect). No matter how thin you slice the songs--down to a single bass riff, or a single chord progression--almost every unit you come up with is not only something new, but something hummable. More of life gets into this music than could ever get into a simpler pop form...