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...when Nilsson’s extravagant similes and metaphors strain the limits even of poetic license. “They left like young autumn octopuses,” she writes of “The Infant Scholars.” Mere originality is not noteworthy. And “originality?? so overtly forced is overbearing and dull. Even less convincing are the attempts scattered throughout “The Abbatoir” at accompanying the themes and motifs of animals, the elemental and the bona fide American, with a feigned exoticism. This takes the form of meaningless phrases...
...depends on how the producer stitches these elements together. Think Newfound Glory, MxPx, Fenix TX, or any of a dozen other 90s pop-punk bands; every element of this disc is old news. Following a well-worn path to musical success is a pardonable offense; to paraphrase Ben Franklin, originality??s all about concealing your sources. But there’s no guile here, and bragging about their theft merits harsher punishment. So when “Infinity on High” opens with a sampled Jay-Z dedication (“To the fans that held...
There is little claim to originality??next to each of the song titles (fully a third of which contain the word “dub”) are the titles of the original music from the Gorillaz album. Yet the songs bring out entirely different aspects of the songs, turning them all into bouncy, bass-heavy, tripped-out…well, dub. “Clint Eastwood,” which was fairly dublike to begin with, is reincarnated here as “A Fistful of Peanuts.” It retains little...
...most serious strike facing the show, though, is not its lack of insightfulness or originality??it is its lack of humor. Sex with animals is funny because it shocks or, more to the point, because it’s meant to shock. But it’s tough to wring shock value from material that’s no longer shocking. Jerry Springer has covered this material with regularity. Albee’s own envelope-pushing theater of the absurd has helped bring us to the point of no trumping taboos...
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