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...better or for worse. Whereas before the strings and instrumental sounds felt very present, and the idiosyncratic, folksy vocals made the songs feel very close and intimate, the new work with its euphoniously monotonic and often electronically-modulated vox feels much more distant. Instead of crooning into the listener??s ears, Lost and Safe seems to take a step back, de-personalizing their songs in what seems like a greater effort to synthesize the “collective unconscious” that their songs aim for with flat, unemotional singing sounding something like a glitchy Schneider TM remix...
...vade the listener??s mind. The seat-restrained crowd went especially wild echoing the crisp vocals of “Evil,” their popular latest single, as they were drowned in a potent drum-and-bass beat...
...because of their thieving. Sure, it’s not often a formula for success, but when it works—and you seem to admit it works for the Gallaghers and Co.—it works wonders, and has the all-too-thrilling effect of forcing the listener??s ear to reinvestigate the sounds that made the originals so fresh and gripping...
With a classmate, Adam D’Angelo (now a student at CalTech and still a close friend) Zuckerberg designed a program that learned a listener??s musical tastes, and then designed a playlist to match...
...Want One, Rufus Wainwright has composed an intricately wrought folly, in the very best sense of the word. It is a folly that towers over listener??s senses, one which both loses itself in its own madness and beauty. Wainwright’s ornate gestures are overtures to himself; courting his past, his influences and his loves—not the least of which is himself. This ode to himself is also a symptom of ecstatic and enviable madness—as he himself has said only half jokingly, “I think...