Word: breakthroughs
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When Asobi Seksu’s breakthrough album, “Citrus,” came out in 2006, it filled a gap in underground music. Loud enough to satisfy My Bloody Valentine fanatics but pretty enough to entice indie pop listeners, the album acquired a large and diverse audience. The band soon developed a reputation for intense live performances fueled by pounding drums and passionate vocals, but listening to their new release, “Hush,” one would find this hard to believe. Leaving rock sensibilities behind in favor of meandering pop musings, Asobi Seksu...
Winslet's pre-Titanic breakthrough came when she was still in her teens, in 1995's charming Sense and Sensibility. But beginning with her portrayal of Clementine, the psychedelic-haired femme semi-fatale who radiates crazy in 2004's Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, a darker, richer phase of her career began to bloom. With the 2006 drama Little Children, in which she plays a suburban mom whose fear that she is becoming a cliché propels her into an affair, and her two latest movies, her appetite for a certain kind of role - "angst-ridden women," she says...
...their latest, “Attack & Release.” Too unprocessed and deferential to have any place in the pop world; too no-nonsense and slow to really belong in the world of indie rock; and lacking a “Seven Nation Army”-style breakthrough hit, the Keys have been making their music for a scattered and diverse audience devoted to their remarkably consistent output. So it might come as something of a shock to hear Dan Auerbach altering his sound a bit on his new solo album “Keep...
...shift in tone may not camouflage the substantial differences that remain between the two countries on the issue of militancy, but given Pakistan's stonewalling until now, it will be counted as nothing less than a breakthrough. A steady stream of U.S. and British envoys have pressed Pakistan to act more decisively, while urging restraint on India. Although Qureshi and his colleagues strenuously deny it, it is widely believed that Holbrooke's four-day visit in Pakistan may have coaxed the government into action...
...Despite the breakthrough, the Mumbai issue could still reignite tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbors. Cyril Almeida, an editor at Dawn newspaper, warned that tensions could arise over the arrested suspects. "Are they the same people India believes are responsible for the attacks?" Almeida asked...