(Anderson) ★ The Sea and Cake (Tuesday) Nearly two decades after it formed, this postrock quartet from Chicago remains a heady experimentalist group, inviting bouts of Latin drumming and electronic discordance into its knotty jazz structures.
(Anderson) ★ The Sea and Cake (Monday) Nearly two decades after it formed, this post-rock quartet from Chicago remains a heady experimental outfit, inviting bouts of Latin drumming and electronic discordance into its knotty jazz structures.
On the knotty, day-tripping Sun Structures, Temples are the band Noel Gallagher hears in his head but can't articulate.
Even when a movie aspires to the intricate structure and weight of a knotty modernist poem, how good can it be when watching it gives you the queasy feeling that you are taking a math exam?
Structuring a deal could prove exceedingly knotty.
But, given the targets in question — huge banks, well-insulated executives, intricately structured financial products, tens of millions of knotty documents — it's unlikely that a federal prosecutor's office, staffed by generalists and operating under standard procedure, which is to wait for cases to come in, could have made serious headway.
But, given the targets in question huge banks, well-insulated executives, intricately structured financial products, tens of millions of knotty documents—it's unlikely that a federal prosecutor's office, staffed by generalists and operating under standard procedure, which is to wait for cases to come in, could have made serious headway.
The meeting point for the songwriting is in structures that are pushier than Helium's and less knotty than Sleater-Kinney's — in other words, closer to the garage and to Patti Smith's kind of punk.
While "The Master Builder" is naturalistic in setting, taking place in the studio and home of Solness (Santo Loquasto's somewhat cramped set is dominated by a structure resembling a tilted metallic jungle gym), it engages knotty spiritual questions about the mysterious workings of human fate and the ruthlessness of the artist's ego.
With the tempos often above 300 BPM, each track blasts into your face with the compressed mania of a ringtone, and the structure of the original composition speeds by with the intensity of a knotty prog song, turning on a dime through verses and choruses and little bridges that blur into each other seconds apart.
