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SARA TOTH A&L Editor April 1, 2009 The Gannon Knight • Arts & Leisure 11 Contrast of city and Activities Programming Board 4/4 Coffeehouse country bring balance - feat. The Very Second Place and Gramsci Melodic - 5 p.m. One of the classic, timeless - Club LaRiccia dichotomies present in human - Free w/ Gannon I.D. civihzation is the contrast ^''^'*~?***'f^S^^t'WMwh™ between the city and the country. This is a www.gannon.edu/apb 814.871.7766 contrast that has lived in my heart for as long facebook.com [email protected] as 1 can remember. Born and raised in the southwestern Pennsylvania countryside, I have always felt that I belonged in a big city somewhere. The discordance between the two sides of The Box Set: my namre came to a frenzied pitch of sorts in the last two weeks. On March 20 1 found myself (with our Music for the Masses illustrious editor-in-chief) navigating the way from LaGuardia Airport to Times Square, via the Metropolitan Transit Authority riddled New singles with crammed train cars and an alpha-numer¬ SARA TOTH ic system that would make your eyes cross. a&l editor play on WERG's New York City is the center of the world now the sound of a car alarm lullaby is the to me, and I found that if I took a second to rotation quickest way to get me to sleep at night. close my eyes, I could feel every corner of the Still, this past weekend was a reminder of By BRENNA PETERS globe and every point in time, past and pres¬ the place I grew up and the springs I begrudg- assistant a&l editor ent, intersecting on those cit}' streets. ingly spent helping my dad drag around fallen But only a week later, I was on my hands tree branches and my mother dig up White Lies - "To Lose My and knees cleaning out a flowerbed at the flowerbeds. Life" Tom Ridge Environmental Center as a part of first So how do I reconcile these two opposing The British trio's first album, "To the 30-Hour Fast. I had only just washed the single from its ideas of city and country living? I think I Lose My Life," debuted at No. 1 on mud and manure from my hands from the debut album, "Common found the answer in the same word that has the UK Album Chart and it's easy to Therapeutic Riding Equestrian Center (the au Struggles." served me well in the past: balance. Maybe hear why on this track that is reminis¬ naturale horse smell still lingered in my hair) The Peter, Bjorn and John-inspiired cent of Joy Division. Singer Harry before being handed a too-large pair of gar¬ this means getting a job as a groundskeeper in whistled opening leads into a list of Central Par;, then I'd have the best of both McVeigh follows Joy Division's Ian dening gloves and pruning shears. problems that culminates in the cho¬ worlds. At least now 1 know I can man a Curtis with his lower register vocals Soon, 1 was up to my knees in natare's win¬ rus of "all my girlfriends are breaking and a danceable track that masks such ter garbage of dead plants and dirt. And sur¬ wheelbarrow hke nobody's business, you up with me." Good luck with that, lyrics as "Let's grow old together and prisingly, being outside and working with know, if the journalism thing doesn't pan out. dude. I'd like to thank Campus Ministry and the die at the same time." nature was just as awe-inspiring as the hustie and bustie of the city I had so recendy fallen Center for Social Concerns, the organizers of OAR - "This Town" Saliva - "How Could You" in love with. the 30-Hour Fast, for providing me and sev¬ The third single off OAR's sixth eral dozen other smdents with a chance to "How Could You," the second sin¬ The contrasts were wonderful, and 1 felt I album, "All Sides," is a mix of forget¬ gle from Saliva's sixth album "Cinco belonged in each of the respective settings. play in the dirt and to breathe in the smells of table and bland radio-friendly rock. namre — the pleasant and the not-so-pleas¬ Diablo," is an out-of-character ballad. These past two weekends afforded me the While its previous single, ant. Josey Scott's vocals take a softer turn oppormnity to keep in touch with my roots "Shattered," garnered mainstream while he emotes about a cheating and my dreams, as well as both sides to the It's a nice thing to hold onto in the time success, "This Town" falls flat in its lover over acoustic guitars and stag¬ rural/urban coin constandy flipping in my before I can go home to my mother's daf¬ simplicity and formulaic pattern. gered drums. life. fodils, so I can dream of the great outdoors At the end of the day, 1 love the idea of after I'm lulled to sleep by city sounds. BRENNA PETERS Single File - "Girlfriends" being a city girl. I know one day my career will peters020@gannon. edu The Westminster, Colo., group take me to the city that never sleeps, and right SARA TOTH toth006@gannon. edu plays nondescript pop-punk on the HAZARDS: Poetic lyrics fill band's fifth release Continued from page 10 Tracks 11 and 12 hint at Wolfmother keyboard/fanta¬ sy rock stock and Deep Purple "Highway Star" fast Decemberists' acoustic vibe patented by Meloy, who also drumming for dramatic effect, the tracks using some acts as narrator. Shakespearean chorus banter before track 12 queues to WTiile similar to other grandiose stories such as 13. Coheed and Cambria's "The Amory Wars" or The Who's "A*""-in Water" speaks of the main shape shifting "Tommy," "Hazards of Love" is simpler and showcases lover giving his life to cross a body of water in exchange Meloy's attention to verse. for presence with his love. "Hazards of Love," besides being a recurring theme The last couple of tracks wind down with children's and the title of four different songs, has some fun ele¬ vocals representing the purgatory life they now live and a ments and lyrics but doesn't entirely live up to other con¬ conclusion akin to a captain going down with his ship. cept albums. Overall, the album does feature some of the best poet¬ Track two, "Hazards of Love," feamres wordplay like, ic lyrics scribed to paper in sometime, but it falls short "where she want to stray," and "a credit to her sex." Even with too much keyboard and easy interpretations. the old timey bass does a superb job setting the scene and With most tales of fantasy and fiction put to music, the jazzy country vibe pulls the listener into the twisted metaphors stem and flourish but are like unreachable tale. apples. They are supposed to be sought, but seldom With "A Bower Scene," the album lays the ground¬ picked. work for when the jealous forest queen utters an audible The Decemberists march on to the mne of their loft)' lyric; her voices taints the music metal: think White AMERICANS0NGWRirER.COM licks of love and death but should invest more in the con¬ Stripes' sloppy solos meets Black Sabbath strumming The Decemberists' fifth album, "The Hazards of Love," released March 24. notation than the denotation in the story's words. with Zeppelin drum smacks. It's simple and easy to pick up, true, but with their fifth "Isn't It a Lovely Night" combines the best attributes Cinderella-esque attempt at the dramatic love he can't act album done, and a similar tale in Mastodon's 2004 release of multiple singers, where Meloy's main character and upon. of "Leviathan," a depiction of "Moby Dick" lore, Meloy Stark's Margaret freely sing sweet nothings to rhymes and "The Rake's Song" finds Meloy's character mrned into should go more Dylan than The Who. news of births and love permeates the air. a common rake, much like the character of Prince Justin "The Warning Comes in Waves" foreshadows the cost in Hayao Miyazki's film, "Howl's Moving Casde." Will is AAATT BLAIR of William's romance from his overbearing mother, forced at the time to hop on by living a cursed life as an blair009@gannon. edu exchanging another night for complete obedience, a very inanimate object. .
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