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Nora McGreevy, Brian Boylen, Augie Collins, Cynthia Tran and Carlos De Loera | Wednesday, May 1, 2019
Senior year feels a lot like LCD Soundsystem’s song “All My Friends.” The beat speeds up, emotions rise, time slips away faster and faster until you can barely jump up and down quickly enough to keep time to the music. All of a sudden, you’re close to the end. As their final year winds down,
Matthew Kellenberg | Thursday, March 21, 2019
“Take Me to Church” is one of the great pop songs of our time. The anthemic blues-gospel track tugs expertly at strings of devotion and disillusionment. Earnest “amens” juxtapose biting premonitions: “I’ll tell you my sins, and you can sharpen your knife.” The song’s key fluctuates between major and minor, evoking visceral agitation. Yet, Hozier’s
Carlos De Loera | Tuesday, September 11, 2018
In 2014, Irish singer-songwriter Hozier took us to church. Now, four years later, he continues to preach his gospel of soul with his newest EP, “Nina Cried Power.” The title of the EP is a reference to the singer, Civil Rights activist and high priestess of soul, Nina Simone. The four-song EP evokes the sentimentality