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Once it looked as though Superchunk were doomed never to make an entire album where the casual listener could remember each individual song well enough afterward to, say, name it or state with conviction that it was one of 11 songs as opposed to three. Now we know they're...
The recorded Mountain Goats sound like the boyfriend that pushed you to screen your phone calls. The lyrics ooze of home-taped messages to be delivered to your door in the hopes that you would ask him back. With his child-like voice delivering strains in a slightly whiny tenor...
Ramos can smile because he knows how far he has come since that day when his future seemingly rested in the hands of a principal. Smile because he knows his mother's tears changed his life. Smile because he knows any listener must be thinking he is telling a tale...
The next song, a slight ballad by Friedrich Rueckert (the same one who made Mahler's masterpiece possible), was the evening's first jewel. As an astute listener remarked, "Dass sie hier gewesen" (That she was here) was ravishing because Goode wove in Upshaw's calm melody among a gently...
Don't Look Back is a good album but not a perfect one; a few of the numbers such as Ain't No Big Thing tend to drag. But there are moments of dark, understated glory here that make you forgive the occasional missteps. The title track is the headiest...