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Hilltop Views | Wednesday, October 8, 2008
ENTERTAINMENT | Page 7
Ra Ra Riot rock the Parish
David Sieloff
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Luckily, the synth worked,
dsielof@stedwards.edu
Kings of Leon
Mary Hennessy
rbarnes2@stedwards.edu
Cold War Kids
Therese Mathers
a
funky, lo-fi production and solid album for real music
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tmather@stedwards.edu
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Album Reviews
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Ra Riot scrambled to figure
out what to do next while
slowly began dancing.
Schneider censored the
wailing and slick produc-
tion and cashed in their
As the set moved along, the
music sped up, and the crowd
fans, free of ubiquitous pop
sounds.
David Sieloff
Ra Ra Riot played many songs from its latest album.
more often," Pearson said.
Brittany Rittger, another
sophomore living on cam-
pus, said she wishes they had
events like this regularly.
"It was fabulous," Rittger
said.
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musically mature Kings.
But the raucous rock
that catapulted the Kings
into the music scene is
gone on their fourth and
latest album, “Only by the
Night." They’ve replaced
their charming, southern
sleaze with self-absorbed
“Glow in the
Dark” a success
show. He chirped intimate deflecting heckles from the
verse on tunes like “Dying crowd. The sextet finally
is Fine." put faith in a backup that
Halfway through the show, they suspected had broken
the bands synthesizer broke, when beer spilled on it.
and as the band launched
into the off-kilter stomp of
“Too Too Fast,” the sincere,
and perhaps naive theme of
hope within their music be-
came all the more apparent.
ex- light certain body parts.
is during the bridge of
“Young Eucharists" when
stammering drums and
fuzzed-out synthesizers
replace the song’s climbing
clavichord progression.
On the whole, the album's
orchestral arrangements
are successful. Harp flour-
ishes and horn crescendos
pair swimmingly with Pen-
nington's floral lyrics. They
In a defining moment, Ra
the night had been dubbed
“Glow in the Dark." Audi-
ence members made them
into shoelaces, glasses frames
and even used them to high-
Two years after their debut
album “Robbers & Cowards"
hit stores, the Cold War Kids
are back with their sophomore
release, "Loyalty to Loyalty."
This effort has all the ele-
ments of their last album, like
it to the show.
“He's a trooper," lead singer
Matt Hines said.
The band's members were
all multi-talented, each play-
ing a variety of instruments
throughout their set.
Before the set ended, mem-
bers of SGA and UPB started
handing out glowsticks, and
it soon became apparent why
It’s difficult to dance to a
cello backed by a punk beat
without looking like a char-
acter on a Peanuts’ Christ-
mas special, but it's still a lot
of fun. Syracuse University
grads Ra Ra Riot imparted
this important life lesson
upon their audience at the
Parish on Friday, Oct. 3.
The band played nearly all
of the songs off of its new
album “The Rhumb Line,"
a record full of refreshing
gusts of unabashed pop per-
fect for the autumn season.
Reigning Arcade Fire’s
bombastic sensibilities into
something more personal,
Ra Ra Riot began the show
tar adds to the record's sense
of fury and purpose.
The album's best songs are
"Cryptomnesia" and "Ava-
lanche In B." You can almost
hear each band member ap-
proaching their physical and
emotional breaking point.
"Loyalty to Loyalty" is a
bass solos. But don't expect a
neat exhibition like"Hang Me
Up To Dry," their 2007 EP.
Some songs address bleak
topics, like suicide in "Golden
Gate Jumpers," or domestic
violence in "Every Man I Fall
For." Nathan Willett's vibrato-
heavy tenor delivers his vivid
lyrics in a sound reminiscent
of a Baptist choir or Chicago
blues singer. The ping and re-
verb of Jonathan Russell’s gui-
with the economic grandeur
of "Each Year," which meld-
ed sweeping strings with
dance-punk drive.
No instrument overpow-
ered any other in Ra Ra
Riot’s arrangements, even
though bassist Mathieu
Santos swung his instru-
ment around like a mem-
ber of Refused. Each rapid
drum fill brushed comfort-
ably against whirling violins
and arpeggiated guitars.
Singer Wes Miles' sincerity
was another highlight of the
ered the same sex, drugs ploy the same dark, griz-
and rock n‘ roll excite- zly intensity fens know
ment on their second and and love. "Only by the
best album "Aha Shake Night,” while disappoint-
Heartbreak." ing, is still worth a listen.
Critics hailed the We should have seen
group as the Southern this coming when the
. Strokes—a perfect mix- boys traded their dirty
ture of classic southern beards and old pearl snaps
rock with hipster send- for designer haircuts and
ments—and new fans skinny jeans. Kings of
flocked to the Foliowill Leon, get back to where
boys. Their third effort, you once belonged.
"Because of the Times,"
showed a darker, more mhennes@stedwards.edu
pletives in his songs to fit the Opener DJ Jester played
venue, but that didn't stop his some unusual beats, at one
fans from singing the correct point mixing 50 Cent-style
words as loud as they could. rapping with a country
Austin-based band The soundtrack.
Eastern Sea took the stage Many students expressed a
before Schneider, bringing desire to have events like this
their own brand of indie mu- on campus more often.
sic that the crowd seemed to Sophomore Alecia Pearson
love. wasn't able to stay for the
Even though the band was whole concert, but said she
worried about their drum- enjoyed the event.
mer who was in a car crash “I live on campus, so they
earlier that day, they all made should definitely do this
Family act Kings of signature frantic, fast-
Leon held onto the mod- paced songs for radio-
est but devoted fan base ready, arena rock ballads,
they gained in 2003 with The album isn’t all
their rough but promising bad. The first tracks of
debut "Youth and Young the album, "Sex on Fire,"
Manhood." They deliv- "Crawl" and "Closer" em-
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has tossed aside their pre- "Entaglements" shows
vious modus operandi anda maturation for the Par-
embraced orchestral pop, enthetical Girls, not only
la Van Dyke Parks and in production but also in
Burt Bacharach, mixed ambition.
with doses of modern clas- By embracing an ar-
sical in the vein of Philip rangement style that some
Glass. might view as mockingly
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’" Four Words," the album’s
On the Parenthetical pensive yet buyout opener
Girls’ third LP, "Entangle- that swells with prancing
ments," warble-voiced strings. Pennington sings,
frontman Zac Pennington "Forgive me but please do
and company almost seem repeat what you’ve said,” in
to be challenging critics to a fluttering tenor that slips
cry "pretension.” The band into falsetto.
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Hilltop Views (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 5, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 8, 2008, newspaper, October 8, 2008; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1523359/m1/7/?q=music: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting St. Edward’s University.