Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on this page. Bill Callahan Apocalypse Drag City. For Bill Callahan, even the smallest of moments can take on epic importance, their universality expanding like a fractal pattern to eventually overwhelm the whole sorry business of living.
Apocalypse, on the other hand, finds him starting with the epic and distilling it down into the personal touches that make it so thoroughly flooring. Callahan frequently conjures up images of a vast, nearly untouched expanse, but populates them to with the smallest and quietest of feelings, and the effect is to make you seem both enormous and tiny, swallowed up by the world and standing against it at the same time.
Not many people can evoke everything all the time, but Callahan does it with ease. Key Tracks: Riding for the Feeling, America! Her wild dissonance and schizoid composition may turn some off, but I hope no one overlooks the fact that Merrill Garbus has basically managed to distill the essence of a city into her music on W h o k i l l.
From subject matter to her screwy, stop-and-go-crazy style, the album feels alive with three million lives sucked up and distilled into urban lullabies and slipped-disc dance numbers. Chad Van Gaalen expands his sonic pallet even further on Diaper Island , but as usual, its his simplest moments that are his best.
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Please try again. As to the finish — well, as small children are fond of saying, are we there yet? If it is, it seems curiously lighter than expected and more work is needed to explain away the discrepancy. This might seem to be nit-picking — except on an infinitesimally smaller scale. That, they will argue, is why the find is hugely significant and the reason for all the headlines. Nice try. But wrong. Do you remember all the media excitement the last time an elementary boson was found? The vast majority of people remain at best only dimly aware of the W and Z bosons — not the most inspired names, admittedly — but they are arguably every bit as crucial to the Standard Model as the Higgs, and their discovery again at Cern in the s was almost as much of a scientific triumph.
The difference is that both finds barely registered in the media beyond dedicated science pages, publications and programmes. But on top of all these, what amplifies our attraction to the Higgs boson is its elusiveness. Not just elusive as in hard to find, elusive as in hard to get our heads round what it does. So the net result is that instead of gaining illumination, we can end up feeling dimmer. But not the Higgs. Instead the slippery business of its involvement with mass is downplayed, or often simply not mentioned.
Instead, the focus is on various permutations of how momentous it is. The reality is that science is often complex, collaborative and continuous. But with stories we like beginnings and ends and strong lead characters, so when we take research down the rabbit hole and into the media things tend to shrink and grow.
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