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• New Music

The duo's equally superb followup, The Odd Couple, doesn't feature a Crazy-level supersmash, but they still wed dark emotions with compelling beats. The closest they come to recreating a Crazy-like raucous paranoia is Run (I'm A Natural Disaster), a '60s mod send-up in the vein of OutKast's Hey Ya, but with Cee-Lo wailing the foreboding lyrics: "Run, children, run for your life!" Meanwhile, Going On is another uptempo hand-clapper that fades out to Cee-Lo's echoing vocals, distorted drum kicks and soaring strings. The rest of the disc covers a range of melancholy, but never feels like you're emotionally sandbagged. Instead the sombre tones merely sound artful, and transcendent in the disc's best moments. Who's Gonna Save My Soul is a slow-burning, soulful lament. The chilling Would Be K...

... Stars, I'd Thought I'd Seen Everything and Oxygen prove, with the latter showing some signs of his e...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• August 26, 2009

• Dystopian Plays Poignant, Powerful Churchill Fest 2010

Mick (Harry Nelken), who's probably in his 60s, and his 30-year-old partner Vivian (Brenda McLean) make the best of things by staying inside. They await a rare visit from Mick's son Claude (Andrew Cecon), a famous and wealthy teen idol. There's a poignant human dimension to Not in the father-son dynamic. When Mick confesses that he kisses the TV screen when his estranged son appears on it, it's a heart-wrenching reminder that we're increasingly sealed off from our loved ones by technology. In the final scene, global war is raging and the absurdity introduced in the second scene becomes comic. Allies, traitors and enemies have become a ludicrous jumble. [Caryl Churchill] suggests that we've already got one foot in a world of such moral confusion, eroded trust, easy rationalization and ta...

...The title, Not Not Not Not Not Enough Oxygen, refers to air pollution that has become so noxiou... words and phrases, rather like song lyrics. Maybe it suggests that the world will end not wit...

• Winnipeg Free Press
• February 04, 2010