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...beat and finds Mercer singing in a reverb-rich falsetto. Two-thirds in, it takes a turn and Mercer drops his voice down to his normal range where he is accompanied by the somewhat hackneyed vacillation of strings and heavy bass. The yearning and nomadic nature of Mercer??s voice traveling through Burton’s trip-hop setting is, as on most of Burton’s past productions, as intriguing as it is enjoyable...
While “The Ghost Inside” demonstrates how Mercer??s voice merges with Burton’s aesthetic, opener “The High Road” slips back and forth between two respective worlds, sounding more like The Shins as imagined by Danger Mouse then a project of its own. The song finds Mercer??s piercing voice singing a refrain with just the right amount of poeticism—“Cause they know and so do I / The high road is hard to find”—over...
...biggest concerns for the Harvard men’s basketball team in its Friday night game was how to slow down Mercer??s top scorer, sophomore guard James Florence. Last year’s Atlantic Sun Conference Rookie of the Year and leading scorer had averaged 26 points per game this season entering the weekend. But he met his match in junior guard Drew Housman, a stifling Crimson defense, and a solid gameplan...
...around in the living room with your dad. The lyrics don’t match the bubbly melody. They have nothing to do with Australia—they’re all about frustration with a dead-end life. McCormick apparently couldn’t resist the juxtaposition of Mercer??s lines “Been alone since you were 21 / You haven’t laughed since January” with a shot of keyboardist Marty Crandall in a pine tree costume diving into a moving van filled with stolen balloons. The band takes their contraband...
...Saint Simon” is the true gem, a moderately paced tune which begins with the simple harmonies of a ’60s Beatles song and effortlessly transitions into a mesmerizing, haunting melody which Mercer hums over romantic strings. When the instrumentation takes a back seat to Mercer??s voice, the Shins’ poetry shines through, showing how the band’s ideology has changed...
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