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...Fox” manages to convey a sense of foreboding thanks in part to the haunting cello, which is quite a relief after so much uniform distortion. The album closes with a mediocre lullaby about love and dying, which emphasizes the cello even more, but fails to hold the listener??s attention. A pared-down version of the album with three or four fewer songs wouldn’t have been so bad. We should have been so lucky. —Reviewer Benjamin C. Burns can be reached at bcburns@fas.harvard.edu...
...verses, Beanie Sigel shines, but it would seem he can’t replicate these performances on the larger canvas of an LP. “The Solution” is no different; on it, Beanie struggles with his past, his faith, and—more relevant to the listener??maintaining any semblance of continuity and quality. “I’m In” is a perfect example of all of the above. It comes roughly halfway through the record, whose trajectory resembles an inverted bell curve. The song begins with something of a cute...
...phones, a Blackberry, and an iPod, who’s really going to give their pager throwback any attention?But in the end, the biggest problem for radio when it comes to counting people is getting numbers that actually matter. PPMs may provide an accurate description of what a listener??s exposure to various radio stations are, but it’s attention and not exposure that’s the holy grail for stations. Thom Mocarsky, vice president of communications at Arbitron, has even stated in Media Life Magazine that “Neither the diary...
...Wanna Be” proves to be one of his more moving efforts. Over a gentle piano melody, he sings longingly to a benefitless friend from whom he wants more. The subject matter makes the song easy to relate to and Brown does his best to evoke the listener??s sympathy. With lyrics like, “I wanna be the person that you dial when you open your eyes / Wanna be the one you run to / Wanna be the one that ain’t gonna hurt you,” Brown reveals his sensitive side...
...what in part, he is: a young, emotional musician who just needs a little lovin’. These occasional moments of triviality and ineloquence undermine Oberst’s intellectual and emotional authority—and yet, they’re undeniably sweet and charming. Ergo, the listener??s dilemma. It’s easy to have conflicting opinions about “Cassadaga.” At one moment, Oberst seems to be an immensely thoughtful songwriter addressing urgent issues of modern life. But at the next, he seems to be just another young sentimentalist who wants...