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ACROSS
1 Band aid
4 “Lohengrin”
soprano
8 High-priced
13 Saint-Tropez sea
14 Chicken (out)
15 Wildly impulsive
17 Well-worn, as
comfy shoes
19 “Finito!”
20 Stretches on the
road
21 Inventor Nikola
23 Director who
sued Spike TV
for using his
name
24 British prep
school
25 University of
North Carolina
city
27 Fives and tens
29 Clueless
30 Lennon’s love
32 Door fasteners
35 TV radio station
39 Firehouse crews
43 Rural road sign
silhouette
44 Shellac
ingredient
45 Insect egg
46 Not a pretty fruit
49 Surprise for the
taste buds
51 Relaxing soak
56 Almost closed
59 Pee Wee
Reese’s number
60 “Chasing
Pavements”
singer
61 English class
lesson
62 Like a plum
tomato
64 Lead singer, and
a hint to the
beginning of 17-,
25-, 39- and 51-
Across
66 Royal residence
67 Apple product
68 Gift-wrapping
time, often
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70 Beantown
hockey great
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2 Reason for a
raise
3 Virtual coupon,
briefly

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5 Civil Rights
Memorial
architect
6 Will of “I Am
Legend”
7 Sleep lab study
8 Looks pleased
9 Wrapped cantina
food
10 Baseball Hall of
Famer Roush
11 Bad bacteria
12 Science fair
judges, e.g.
16 Orange coat
18 Hawaii’s __
Coast
22 Some jerks
25 Burn a bit
26 Gibson’s “Bird on
a Wire” co-star
28 “__ Will Be
Loved”: Maroon
5 hit
30 Word with
country or world
31 “You wish,
laddie!”
33 Writer on scrolls
34 Usher’s creator
36 Nickname for
LeBron
37 Outdoor gear
brand
38 L.A. clock setting

40 Shellac
41 Nitty-gritty
42 “Wheel of
Fortune”
purchase
47 Carom
48 Ibex resting
places
50 Political
cartoonist
Thomas
51 Cartoon flapper
52 Put away, as
groceries

53 “Twilight”
heroine
54 Michael Caine
role
55 U. of Maryland
team
57 Tequila source
58 Make one’s
Fortune last
longer?
61 Counterclockwise
arrow function
63 Cereal grass
65 “Alley __”

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Arts
The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com

Ekko’s ‘Time’ is 
a dynamic debut

Mikky Ekko steps 
out of Rihanna’s 
shadow on ‘Time’

By GIBSON JOHNS

Daily Arts Writer

Mikky Ekko has a compli-

cated relationship with time. 
On the one hand, he prefers to 
tread 
lightly 

and take his 
time 
profes-

sionally — it’s 
been over two 
years 
since 

he broke out 
as 
the 
fea-

tured 
artist 

on 
Rihanna’s 

slow-burning Top 40 smash, 
“Stay,” and he’s only just now 
releasing his debut album. On 
the other hand, when it comes 
to his rocky relationship with 
love, he’s impatient with time, 
as evidenced by his dark mus-
ings throughout his debut.

It’s clear that with Time, 

Ekko wanted to establish a 
dynamic sound for himself that 
both solidified the one we would 
have previously expected from 
him — the tender, emotional 
voice that worked in perfect 
harmony with the R&B lean-
ings of “Stay” — and brought 
forth newer, less genre-specific 
settings for his voice to explore. 
Though this approach occa-
sionally pays off, more often 
than not Ekko exudes a desire 
to prove he doesn’t fit into one 
Rihanna-established 
mold. 

This unfortunately gets in the 
way of what he does remarkably 
well, which is to croon hurtfully 
about love, time and heartache 
on soaring, midtempo, slightly 
left-of-center pop.

On the title track, “Time,” 

Ekko does just that — over an 
orchestral backing, he uses his 
beautiful falsetto to prove his 
dedication to a rocky relation-
ship. “Time doesn’t love you 
anymore / But I’m still knock-

ing at your door,” he sings on 
the song’s bridge. It’s lyrics 
like these that exemplify his 
standing on the twisted affair 
between time and love. He 
doesn’t believe in waiting for 
a love that has become stag-
nant because he sees waiting 
as harmful to the future of 
romance.

However, he also recogniz-

es the sometimes inescapable 
nature of waiting on “U,” another 
standout track. Over a simulta-
neously ethereal and pulsating 
beat, Ekko acknowledges that 
there is a “long, long road to love” 
and sounds almost as though he’s 
channeling Ne-Yo. “Mourning 
Doves,” another dark midtempo 
track, continues this strong, self-
assured sound but sees Ekko 
start to experiment a bit. Rusty 
screeching is littered throughout 
the verses, which foreshadows 
the change in sound coming in 
the album’s second half.

“Riot” is a call to arms 

against the pressures time plac-
es on love that strays a little bit 

too far into the realm of pop-
rock. “Loner” is a bland, rock-
tinged track that fails to take off 
about (you guessed it) being a 
loner. “Watch Me Rise,” though 
a better attempt at capturing a 
more effective rock sound, feels 
too much like a OneRepublic 
B-side and, thus, is out of place 
on Time.

Ekko’s affinity for experi-

mentation occasionally pays 
off, though — like on the static, 
distorted “Pressure Pills” and 
the twinkling, confident “Made 
Of Light” — and the album’s 
preoccupation with time and 
love provides it with a much-
needed string of continuity. It’s 
clear that Ekko’s struggle to 
accept that waiting for love is a 
necessary evil is one that took 
him a long time — two years, 
to be sure — and for a chunk 
of Time, his struggle is one we 
want to listen to him sing about.

Mikky Ekko has a clear 

wheelhouse that he excels in. 
It’s one that comes in the form 
of a midtempo ballad with a 
dark place, and it’s the same one 
that we heard the first time he 
sang with Rihanna. What’s also 
clear, though, is that Ekko is 
searching to expand upon that 
wheelhouse. Has he found a 
way to successfully do that? Not 
quite, and I’m not really sure he 
needs to. Only time will tell if 
he keeps looking.

2015 set to be a big 
year for blockbusters

By BRIAN BURLAGE

Daily Arts Writer

Film in 2014 seemed to be 

largely about the human drama, 
as movies like “Boyhood,” “Selma” 
and “The Grand Budapest Hotel” 
(all Oscar favorites) told stories in 
a wholly new honest and human 
way. Many of the most critically 
acclaimed films relied on little CGI 
animation, instead opting for a 
more straightforward approach to 
cinematic grace.

2015, however, seems to prom-

ise a different set of riches. Many of 
this year’s heavyweights exist now 
as big-budget, big-stick blockbust-
ers waiting to rake in the millions 
(billions likely) — poised to smash 
box office records and ticket sales 
and reduce last year’s film pool 
into a puddle of rainwater. While 
this is, of course, not a bad thing, I 
predict that 2015 will be a year of 
computerized movie magic – but 
one of the strongest yet.

“The Peanuts Movie”

Though Bill Melendez, creator 

of the original “Peanuts” TV film 
series, passed away in 2008, his 
legacy will thrive in 2015. Melen-
dez’s paramount voice work as 
Snoopy and Woodstock will be 
revived, as director Steve Mar-
tino (“Ice Age: Continental Drift”) 
plans to integrate archival record-
ings of the voices. Produced by 
Paul Feig (“Bridesmaids”), writ-
ten by Charles M. Schulz’s sons 
Craig and Bryan and scored by 
Christophe Beck (“Frozen”), “The 
Peanuts Movie” will deliver all the 
charm and sentimentality of the 
original cartoon with the wit and 
animation effects of the modern 
age.

“In the Heart of the Sea”

Nathaniel 
Philbrick’s 
2000 

eponymous nonfiction book sets 
something astir in the mind of 
director Ron Howard, something 
like confidence. The story’s been 
told and retold a hundred times 
(most notably in Herman Mel-
ville’s 1851 novel Moby-Dick) but 
never with the technological capa-
bilities of today. “In the Heart of 
the Sea” is a nautical tragedy, one 
that speaks to the fear all sailors 

face when confronted by one of 
nature’s most eminent forces: the 
sperm whale. The tragedy of the 
whaleship Essex is, as the trailer 
states, a story about men. And a 
demon.

“Mad Max: Fury Road”

It takes two full plays of the 

trailer to fully grasp everything 
that’s 
happening 
in 
director 

George Miller’s “Mad Max: Fury 
Road,” the fourth installment in 
the Mad Max franchise. Specially 
engineered cars tear across the 
Australian desert as music from 
the previous century illustrates 
the terror of their flight. Men with 
facial deformities yell things like, 
“What a lovely day!” as they make 
chemical weapons out of gasoline 
and oil. Explosions, storms and 
strangeness abound in this fantas-
tical flick. Prepare for anarchy.

“Jurassic World”

While Steven Spielberg’s origi-

nal “Jurassic Park” film observed 
a variety of dinosaur species and 
focused mainly on the Tyranno-
saurus Rex, “Jurassic World” will 
look at a few dinosaur species and 
focus mainly on the Velociraptor. 
Chris Pratt (“Guardians of the Gal-
axy”) stars as Owen, a member of 
the theme park’s on-site staff who 
conducts behavioral research on 
the vicious Velociraptor species, 
and who seems to be able to con-
trol them in some way. “Jurassic 

World” will add a more jarring and 
horrific element to the franchise’s 
already thrilling story.

“St. James Place”

Directed by Steven Spielberg 

(“Lincoln”), written by the Coen 
brothers (“No Country for Old 
Men”), starring Tom Hanks (“Cap-
tain Phillips”), shot by Janusz 
Kaminski and edited by Michael 
Kahn (the team that brought you 
the unforgettable reality of “Sav-
ing Private Ryan”). “St. James 
Place” is a spy thriller based on 
the 1960 U-2 Incident. Be ready. Be 
excited.

“The Revenant”

Alejandro González Iñárritu, 

who directed last year’s comedy-
drama sensation “Birdman,” will 
return this year with “The Rev-
enant,” a story about the life of 
American 
frontiersman 
Hugh 

Glass. Glass (Leonardo DiCaprio, 
“Wolf of Wall Street”) was a fur 
trapper and adventurer renowned 
for his exploits in the American 
West throughout the 19th century. 
The film will focus mainly on his 
expedition with Ashley’s Hundred 
(a band of 100 people), in which 
Glass was mauled by a grizzly bear, 
crawled more than 200 miles to 
Fort Kiowa, recovered and sought 
the revenge of those who left him 
behind.

“Avengers: Age of Ultron”

Big budget, big sequel, big 

characters, big action, big stakes.

“Sisters”

Though this film’s premise 

seems to draw a bit (or a lot) 
from the 2008 comedy hit “Step 
Brothers,” it certainly promises 
its fair share of laughs, gags and 
memorable lines. Director Jason 
Moore has made a career on 
Broadway and directed his debut 
film in 2012 with “Pitch Perfect,” 
a combination of music, fun per-
formances and wild theatrics. 
“Sisters” stars Tina Fey, Amy 
Poehler and Maya Rudolph, a trio 
of Saturday Night Live comedi-
ans so funny and so right for each 
other, this film is bound to be a 
home run.

“Ricki and the Flash”

If the writer of “Juno” (Dia-

blo Cody), the director of “The 
Silence of the Lambs” (Jona-
than Demme) and Meryl Streep 
announced that they had a movie 
in the works, would you believe 
them? What would you imagine? 
“Ricki and the Flash” answers 
both of those questions. Streep 
(“Into the Woods”) is set to play 
Ricki, an aging rock star who 
abandoned her family to become 
a famous musician. Ricki’s life 
takes an even greater dramatic 
turn when her ex-husband Pete 
(Kevin Kline, “The Conspirator”) 
asks her to visit Chicago in order 
to help their estranged, divorced 
daughter Julie (Mamie Gummer, 
“Cake”) through a difficult time.

“Star Wars Episode VII: The 

Force Awakens”

You’d think they could come 

up with a better title. J. J. Abrams 
(“Star Trek”), Lawrence Kasdan 
(“Indiana Jones and the Raiders 
of the Lost Ark”), Adam Driv-
er (“Frances Ha”), Oscar Isaac 
(“Inside Llewyn Davis”), Andy 
Serkis (“Dawn of the Planet of 
the Apes”), the entire main cast of 
the original films, John Williams, 
George Lucas and practically all 
the forces of a galaxy far, far away, 
and they come up with, “The Force 
Awakens.” Well, personal qualms 
aside, this film seems to reinvigo-
rate all the themes and tropes that 
made the original trilogy so popu-
lar. I just hope Kasdan and Abrams 
bring back Jar Jar Binks.

ALBUM REVIEW

RCA RECORDS

“I want you to stay, I want you to stay, I want you to stayyyyyy.”

B

Time

Mikky Ekko

RCA Records

A complicated 
relationship 
with time.

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