They are thick, weighty records on the Fantasy label.
It's about weighty issues.
It will be especially interesting -- in light of Leonard Bernstein's weighty Philharmonic recording of "Messiah," from 1956 on Sony Classical -- to see how far Sir Neville takes the orchestra down the historically informed path.
Working with the graphic designer Bruce Mau, he composed a weighty (six pounds) record of his architectural projects, memorializing the unbuilt along with the constructed and categorizing them by size.
Inspired by American R&B groups like the Drifters and the Impressions, the Heptones progressed from lighthearted love songs to weightier themes on records like "Equal Rights" and "Sufferers Time".
The new record lands on weightier subjects like the Syrian refugee crisis while other tunes process Tuareg-style playing through her fuzzy, electric style.
And just when you thought golf had its fill of absurdity, we get another whiff of John Daly, whose latest escapades launch him into full clown mode: tweeting a reporter's cellphone number in anger after unsuccessfully suing him for libel, a case that also landed Daly's weighty personnel file in the public record.
It's a nail-biting process, though: two years ago he had a weighty wonder that was set to outgrow his record-breaker, but it split the day before the show so had to be turned into a pie.
You get home, bursting with anticipation, and sit down to listen to the first half-dozen songs of a beloved artist's recording career, and to read the weighty accompanying essay, and then, somewhere along the line, a vague disappointment kicks in.
Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly's appointment of three former federal prosecutors to evaluate the integrity of the Police Department's internal system for recording crime data has posed the panel with a weighty task.
