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...although disappointing, such missteps are soundly vindicated by the dizzying heights of the climactic last few songs. The crushing epic “She” is as monolithic as a hip-hop Zeppelin, with Jordan Dalrymple’s vaguely Middle Eastern guitar screeches and massive Bonham drums backing Dose’s most cohesive lyrical narrative yet, still hopelessly scattered by non-post-modern standards, but this time organized around the attributes of the eponymous “She.” This song coincidentally shares its title with a Saul Williams book, Williams’ musical forays...
...Chris Rock aptly observed in an interview last month, Martin Scorsese’s The Aviator—perhaps the closest Hollywood came to producing an epic in the past year—draws its dramatic power from the suspense of watching a wealthy white man choose where to invest his money. In the age of Enron and Halliburton, it’s surely a story for our time and the picture most likely to take home the top prize at this Sunday’s Academy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles...
...feel our love coming up behind you,” Sadie tells Marianne, “that’s all you got in this world”). Reaching from anecdotes before Sadie and Jim are born to the turmoil of the Reconstruction Era South, it has an epic quality, without feeling imposing; “historical” data float in and out of the narrative, more or less organically...
...band, from their 2002 Five Songs EP (which, in trademark cheeky Decemberists fashion, was comprised of six songs), through their two breakthrough LPs, Castaways and Cutouts and Her Majesty the Decemberists, both released in 2003, and into their most recent release, 2004’s single-song 20-minute epic of an EP, The Tain...
However, one should never forget that Meloy is no frail waif of a performer. To close the main set, Meloy picked up his giant twelve-string and played through an extended version of the epic, 10-minute-long Castaways and Cutouts finale, “California One/Youth and Beauty Brigade.” During the transcendent bridge that transitions between the song’s two parts, Colin sat himself down on the stage and turned his eyes downward to his guitar, strumming one single riff over and over, eventually shifting it around until he came to a new variation...