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"Get your freakum dress on."
'Built for boredom

Male models
become handymen
on new Style series
By EMILY BODDEN
For the Daily
"Built" tears down any
remaining hope for the Style
Network. The producers may
have finally
run out of all C_
ideas for new
programming. Built
The premise
of their newest Pilot
show, "Built," Tuesdays at8p.m.
seems to have
been invented Style
by drawing two
random words from a bowl and
building a series off the combi-
nation. The program revolves
around a team of handymen who
also happen to be male models.
Yep, that's right, the show fea-
tures male models renovating
upscale homes.
The montages of the shirt-
less men fixing homes are sure to
provoke a blush from any bored
housewife. Bad music plays as the
camera focuses in on the perfect
curvature of the "workers." The
trashy tone of "Built" is evident
by the end of the first five minutes.
While handy and handsome,

these models cannot boast high
IQs or eloquence. Their inces-
sant chatter tempts viewers to
hit mute. The more they speak,
the less likeable they are. And
even worse, none of the models
seem to care that they sound
unintelligible. We do get a
hilarious compilation of all the
models talking about what type
of brain they are, though - one
claims to be going through law,
school, which begs the ques-
tion of how he can study, take
part on a TV show and provide
high-end home repair. Another
speaks about how he is a creative
type and "prefers to be called a
visionary."
How did these male models
join forces? Shane, the head of
the operations, recruited a hand-
ful of his male model friends
who had "some" experience in
construction. Fair enough, we'll
let that slide. But then, Donny,
the airhead "pretty one" of the
group, speaks of recruitment
that occurred at a model beach
volleyball tournament. What?
There's really something called
"model beach volleyball?"
To make matters worse,
Donny also utters the phrase,
"Let's go find some nerds." He
says this in reference to his
desire to create some software
(which- has already been invent-
ed) that the head of design was

talking about installing into
their project. The fact that he
says "nerds" makes him sound
like a hyper-masculine heathen.
In one sentence, he manages to
disrespect the value of intelli-
gence, and raise the question of
how he has gotten this far in life.
And now their clients. The first
homeowner, Adina, is the trophy
wife of a lawyer and dons full
makeup and a ball gown to meet
the crew. She hires the team to
turn her 1,000-square-foot closet
into a "dressingsuite."
During introductions, she
makes uncomfortable sexual
comments and won't keep her
hands to herself. She even forces
them to pull up their shirts to
show off their abs within the first
five minutes. This might qualify
as workplace harassment.
The final reveal of Adina's
closet dispels any doubt about
the craftsmanship of the mod-
els. While over the top and
ridiculous, the work appears to
be up to par. The structure of the
show seems not to care about
the actual work but more about
how attractive the workers look
while doing various tasks. This
show is sure tobe ahit for people
who know what they're getting
themselves into, but without
more mainstream viewership,
cancellation looms in the very
near future.

Charlie's Angels.
Frightened Rabbits
scribe, a haunted Verse'

By JACKSON HOWARD
DailyArts Writer
Before Mumford & Sons and
their British folkiness captured
the hearts of pseudo-hipster
Americans,
Frightened A-
Rabbit had
already Pedestrian
amassed a Verse
large catalogue
of quality Scot- Frightened
tish folk music Rabbits
that captivated
the Pitchfork Atlantic
crowd and
found success overseas. None-
theless, though the band was
most likely content with its
obscurity in the United States,
there was a natural desire (at a
time when pop-folk -songs like
The Lumineers's "Ho Hey" is a
Top-20 hit) to make a push at the
American audience. The band
signed with Atlantic Records,
and, voila, Pedestrian Verse
emerged.

Fans, breathe easy. Record-
label change aside, the band
sounds exactly the same. And
that's a wonderful thing. Pedes-
trian Verse is full of Frightened
Rabbit's trademark Scottish
folk music. Lead vocalist Scott
Hutchison sounds as confident
and depressed as ever, and while
that may seem like an odd combi-
nation, Frightened Rabbit is one
of the few bands for which that
description actually makes sense.
Pedestrian Verse overflows
with songs about death and
depression, yet Hutchison's
voice and attitude are more along
the lines of "who cares" than
"woe is me." Take "Dead Now,"
where Hutchison sings noncha-
lantly about his somewhat sui-
cidal thoughts. "If we can't bring
an exorcist / I'll settle for one of
your stiffest drinks," he muses
as the band holds down a locked-
in bass-driven groove.
Hutchison takes the self-
loathing even farther on
"Nitrous Gas," a song that begins

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as one of the most miserable
songs written in recent memory.
"I'm dying to tell you that I'm
dying here / Throw up the sickly
joy and the swell of the sweet
self-loathing," Hutchison sings,
his voice somehow carrying
little sadness. Then comes the
ending. "And if happiness won't
come to me ... " he continues,
"You can keep all of your oxygen
/ hand me the nitrous gas." The
song suddenly switches from
a depressive anthem to a black
comedy, the exact contradiction
that makes the band so distinct.
Hutchison
probes deep
emotions with
dark humor.
The lyrics on Pedestrian Verse,
as on all the band's albums, are
tremendously deep and elo-
quent. Hutchison's songs dazzle
in their wordiness - at times a
bit too much so - but read out
loud without music they sound
truly incredible.
On "December's Traditions,"
Hutchison reminisces, "Decem-
ber's traditions suck the last
of summer from our cheeks /
draws the curtains / strips the
trees." Building guitars and
howling backing vocals open
the door into Hutchison's mind,
making the song an especially
powerful one.
"The Woodpile," maybe the
best song on the record, serves
as the perfect example of the
band's ability to walk the ever-
so-thin line between introspec-
tion and sappiness, a boundary
crossed way too often in pop
music. Over beating drums and
heavy guitars, Hutchison
unleashes one of Frightened
Rabbit's best choruses, pleading
for someone to rescue him from
his burning loneliness.
There are points in the
album where the band's folky
guitar-and-drum sound feels
monotonous - the songs where
little splashes of piano heard
feel beyond refreshing. But
don't blame the receptiveness
on the band; look to the lyrics,
which definitely take the atten-
tion away from the actual music.
This is far from a bad thing -
in fact, it makes his lyricism
all the more impressive - but
it detracts from a few songs,
like "Holy" and "The Oil Slick,"
which are more lyrical showcas-
es than complete tracks.
"There's something wrong
with me," Hutchison groans on
"Dead Now" - as if it wasn't
clear already - but while he
does sound genuinely sad, he
seems just as happy saying it.
Pedestrian Verse is a wonder-
ful compilation of Scottish folk-
rock, dark humor and clever
storytelling that deserves to be
mentioned with the top albums
of this new year. Just don't sing
it in front of your parents, or
they might think something's
wrong with you, too.

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