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MUSIC REVIEWS
BELLAFEA
CAVALCADE
POST-PUNK
Uncertainty permeates Cavalcade,
Bellafea's long-awaited follow-up to
2004s Family Tree EP.
“Punish me with the crudest
summer/Terrify me with silence/
Make me desperate/Let me wake
alone/Make me cry rivers,* front
woman Heather McEntire pleads
on “Telling The Hour," her exas
perated voice carried by a minimal
drum beat, haunting choral voices
and piercing strings.
It's a moment as tender as a just
picked scab, oozing and throbbing
with a pain that is entirely palpable.
Musically, the record is filled
with moments of cable-thick
tension. McEntire's guitar leads
the charge as drummer Nathan
Buchanan and new bassist Eddie
Sanchez pulse along with her. veer
ing into surprising territories, cir
cling back again and winding up
someplace new entirely.
With the added backing of
Sanchez and a stockade of musi
cal contributors, Caialcade shows
a fuller, more voluminous Bcllafea
than on Family Tree. But the bigger
sound doesn't make the record safe.
It makes it more moving, more
exciting and more dangerous.
•Bryan Reed
THE STRUGGLERS
THE LATEST RIGHTS
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In a way that is vaguely reminis
cent of stretching your arms and
wiping the sleep from your eves just
as the sun begins to peak through
the bedroom window, The Latent
Rights is the type of record that
grows steadily from front to back.
Beginning with the pleasant
groove of “Morningside Heights,’
Randy Bickford’s soft baritone offers
a warm, familiar handshake from an
old friend before a perfectly placed
fiddle adds anew layer of lament.
As the record struts slowly but
confidently through its nine tracks.
Bickford’s voice and rich lyrics pro
vide the strength, while the appropri
ately minimal arrangements make
sure those strengths receive the
amount of attention they deserve.
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morning record. The type of country
record that is built on ultra-personal
reflection and subtle guitar strums.
And as the day begins, and
Bickford continues, it builds to the
end, offering a clear view' of a day
that is offered without the dregs of
sleep and with the experience of a
life well lived.
-Jamie Williams
R.E.M.
ACCELERATE
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No one would argue the merits of
R.E.M. But, it is easy to say that the
band began to lose its way several
years ago. releasing a few albums
not deserving a spot on the same
shelf as Murmur or Automatic for
the People.
Well, that phase is over.
Accelerate, to put it quite simply,
is a return to form. It sounds like
the R.E.M. that took the college
rock scene by storm in the ‘Bos.
There is urgency, there is passion,
and there is a sense of timelessness
that the band's most recent releases
have lacked.
The album's single. “Supernatural
Superserious," is the highlight, mix
ing Michael Stipe's subtle political
musings on acceptance with a pop
styled guitar riff and well-placed
backing vocals.
“Everybody here comes from
somewhere/But they would just
as soon forget and disguise." Stipe
sings.
And while there is plenty of room
for heavy-handed commentary, it
doesn't seem appropriate, because
its just a rock song. Its not hurtful,
its not combative, it’s just fun.
And that characterizes the
entirety of the record until the final
track, “I’m Gonna DJ," closes with
its kitschy hook, “It’s pretty final/
I’m collecting vinyl/I’m gonna DJ
at the end of the world."
But don’t let that dreadful lyric
distract from the quality of the rest
of the record.
And after the band's most recent
output, it is allowed at least one
stinker on an otherwise stellar LP.
-Jamie Williams
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There’s no way to know what to
expect on Cloud Cult’s Feel Good
Ghosts (Tea-Partying Through
Tornadoes).
The forces of nature that influ
ence the group an* probably guilty
of causing the congenial chaos and
calmness that ensues.
The LP could be used as a
teaching mechanism for what to
do when encountered with an eco
logical predicament. Strings, keys
and effects dominate the bulk of
the album that includes a volcanos
will and a survival guide to fire and
hurricanes.
And like a painter practicing
his craft, “The Tornado Lessons" is
taken at whirling dervish pace and
accentuated by mousey squeaks
and pounding drums like the con
trast of delicate and broad brush
strokes against a canvas.
Feel Good Ghosts amounts to a
tutorial on the bedlam and tran
quility nature can create, which
Cloud Cult has the ability to express
through the means of classical
infused, experimental pop tunes.
-Benn Wineka
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SHAKERMAKER
SHAKERMAKER
INDIE POP
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One word summation of
Shakermaker’s self-titled LP:
agreeable.
The Chapel Hill quartet creates
indie pop tracks that wash over the
listener and elevate them with an
air of affability .
A cut such as “Sunday Ladies"
employs the vintage short-play sin
gles format, cashing out at just shy
of two-and-a-half minutes, but is
potent enough to lead it to become
a memorable experience on every
listening.
Shakermaker never compli
cates arrangements, allowing the
musical elements such as the
occasional pedal steel guitar to
dictate the varying influence on
each song. The often overlooked
quality of country and Brit-pop
inspired tracks keeps the album
fresh from song to song.
The band seems content when
making music, which leaves
Shakermaker with an easygoing,
homey* feeling.
But the band could become that
much better by stepping beyond
the bounds of its —and its listen
ers' comfort zones.
-Benn Wineka
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energetic sense of proggv fun that was refreshing to see in a
metal band as it opened for N.C. bands Giant and BTBAM.
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