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...songwriters—Elvis Costello, Dusty Springfield, Lou Reed, the Dirty Projectors, to name a few—are paired with songs by preceding, contemporaneous, and succeeding black artists—The Impressions, D’Angelo. For Phoenix, stylistic connections trump relations of chronology or influence. Placing Elvis Costello??s schmaltzy, intricate “Shipbuilding,” just before D’Angelo’s wholly different, yet still schmaltzy and intricate “Send It On” emphasizes the similarities to a point where race, genre, and era seem...
...guitar solo in the closing minutes. Bono yelps in an admirable attempt at soulfulness, but it sounds forced and disingenuous.The grinding intro of “Get On Your Boots” is catchy, but gives way to awkwardly tossed off verses within a handclap-filled massacre of Elvis Costello??s “Pump It Up,” complete with puerile rhymes like “I got a submarine, you’ve got gasoline!” With several stilted shifts in tempo and wobbly Guns n’ Roses-esque guitar flourishes...
...dorm room with a shadow on her face. The photograph entitled “The Skies are Different Here,” by Alissa C. Costello ’12, was part of a larger, semester-long project of creating portraits of about 40 different freshmen. The project became Costello??s way of exploring the freshmen transition and their struggle to combine Harvard’s expectations with their own. “I’m trying to reveal the limbo, the in-between period,” Costello said. “It?...
Even more stunning is “War Changes Everything,” a protest song so spot-on in its commentary that it instantly makes all others from this century redundant. A description of how war corrupts and changes people, it springs from Costello??s own experiences but is universal in its impact. When he sings “I’ve sat alone on a mountaintop in a foreign land and wondered at how foolish humans are / Always at war,” one hopes that some future or current politician is paying attention...
...Pike County,” one of the most touching and hopeful on the album, Costello??s observation that “the sun broke through after years of darkness” shows that he has hopes for a better world. The female backing singers, with their “hoo, hoo” support, add additional levels of sweetness to a beautiful song...