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ACROSS
1 Roasting bird
6 Kennel racket
10 Doze, with “out”
14 How writers often
work
15 NATO alphabet
ender
16 Ancient Andean
17 Lift
20 Bar sing-along
21 Quasi-convertible
option
22 Rock gp. with
winds and strings
23 Mil. training site
25 Pizzeria
attractions
29 Nervous giggle
32 “Cure Ignorance”
online reader
34 Glamorous
Gardner
35 Windy-day
window noise
37 Strummed strings
38 Lift
42 Linen fiber
source
43 Newspaper
space
measurement
44 So last week
45 Take in the
wrong way?
47 Split with the
band
51 Pet shelter
mission
53 Apt name for a
cook?
55 Put the cuffs on
56 Does one’s part?
58 Elves, at times
61 Lift
65 Curved entrance
adornment
66 Drop
67 Nautical table
listing
68 “Okay, granted”
69 “Bossypants”
memoirist Fey
70 Mail-order-only
company until
1925

DOWN
1 Small jewelry box
2 Acid neutralizer
3 “Little grey cells”
detective

4 Draft category
5 “Quo Vadis”
emperor
6 Tenochtitlán
native
7 Play about
automatons
8 Like much desert
9 Acquisition on a
blanket, perhaps
10 Brand with a
flame over the “i”
in its logo
11 Artist Yoko
12 Big name in bar
code scanners
13 Dennings of “2
Broke Girls”
18 Hybrid tennis
attire
19 Ticked off
24 Besmirches
26 Powerful shark
27 Say with
certainty
28 Carrier to Oslo
30 Cereal “for kids”
31 Work on a course
33 Many a “Hunger
Games” fan
36 Bluffer’s
giveaway
37 Colorado natives
38 Cobalt __

39 “Aw, shucks!”
40 Harder to see, as
shapes
41 Have-at link
42 Voting yes on
45 “That stings!”
46 Hit a winning
streak
48 New York lake
near Utica
49 Pantry
50 Dominate the
thoughts of

52 Hidden stockpile
54 Iota preceder
57 California’s __
Valley
59 D-Day transports
60 __-dieu: kneeler
61 New Year’s party
handout
62 Clearance rack
abbr.
63 Fort Worth sch.
64 Many holiday
guests

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ALBUM REVIEW
Emotive ‘EVOL’ 
a win for Future

Artist serves 

another success 

with latest

By MATT GALLATIN

Daily Arts Writer

With an onslaught of Future 

music comes an onslaught of 
cheesy emojis. There was the 
diamond 
for 

What a Time 
to 
Be 
Alive, 

the 
purple 

umbrella 
for 

Purple 
Reign, 

and 
now 

the rose and 
fire 
emojis 

for 
EVOL 

(pronounced “evil”), Future’s 
newest album. After premiering 
on DJ Khaled’s new Beats 1 
radio show, fans were quick to 
dutifully 
litter 
ex-girlfriend 

Ciara’s 
Instagram 
with 
the 

emoticons and shout “Fire!” 
throughout the Twitter-sphere.

But the pettiness of these 

social media gimmicks does 
injustice to the Atlanta rapper’s 
rapidly expanding discography. 
His relentless pace of releases 
over the last year and a half has 
been nearly unparalleled, and 
is a refreshing contrast for fans 
given the recent trend of major 
artists holding back and cutting 
down 
on 
their 
production. 

EVOL, coming just three weeks 
after Purple Reign, is his latest 
solid release of smoky-room trap.

“Low Life,” the first taste 

of the album, was released 
on Christmas and features a 
characteristically 
dark 
and 

murky collaboration with The 
Weeknd, an artist who talks 
about drugs almost as much as 
Future does. It’s predictable, 
but that’s not necessarily a bad 
thing. “I just took some molly, 
what 
else?” 
Future 
states, 

acknowledging that we should 
be fully aware of the life he lives 
at this point. He doesn’t need 
to advertise — this is common 

knowledge. This complete self-
awareness is obvious through the 
track.

That release set the tone for 

EVOL. There’s nothing here 
that we haven’t heard before. 
As expected, the album is 
filled with prescription drug 
references 
(“Promethazine/

codeine this shit champagne for 
us”) and subliminal Ciara disses 
(“I know you ain’t saving that 
pussy / You know somebody 
play in that pussy”). Still, EVOL 
manages to keep its head above 
the sea of strong Future releases 
and stake its own claim.

“Xanny 
Family” 
captures 

the aesthetic of the album 
particularly 
well. 
Melodic 

rapping, 
hallucinogenic 

production and constant tempo 
push this track forward. It’s a 
hedonistic night of debauchery 
during which Future takes just 
enough time to look around, 
comment on his surroundings, 
and 
move 
on. 
The 
entire 

album is the same, hardly ever 
slowing. Where his last release 
Purple Reign put on the brakes 
with “Perkys Calling,” a ballad 
of sorts, EVOL powers through 
for 40 minutes without sign of 
letting up.

With this relentless pace, 

Future leaves behind the syrupy 
dissatisfaction that consumed 
DS2, his critically acclaimed 
album from last year. On “Kno 
the Meaning” from DS2, he stops 
rapping and simply talks over a 
quiet piano note, explaining the 
context of his mixtape 56 Nights. 
He follows this with the croon 
“there’s so much more I gotta 
endure.” Drug addiction and 
meaningless sex weighed heavily 

on Future on that album, and it 
was a cry for help masked with 
trap production. EVOL removes 
the lament and sees Future full-
heartedly embracing that foggy 
world.

Future comes to own his 

rapping style here as well. His 
skill has always been in delivery 
and memorable one-liners, and 
EVOL doesn’t disappoint on this 
end. “You n****s don’t exist, 
we eat filet mignon” is a clear 
example from “Photo Copied.” 
What does that even mean? 
Regardless, it’ll stick with you 
afterward.

Stylistically, EVOL has close 

ties to “March Madness,” the 
single from 56 Nights. “Fly 
Shit Only” recalls it especially, 
angry and pummeling headfirst, 
but with an added cinematic 
feel. Future is looking down 
on 
the 
world 
from 
above 

(“JET DOUGH”), listing off 
the reasons why he’s the “only 
one that’s ballin.” That kind 
of 
outer-worldly 
quality 
is 

honed throughout this album. 
Take the track “Photo Copied,” 
an ex-girlfriend diss. While 
lyrically it’s relatively petty, 
it manages to transcend with 
production that punctures the 
air like some kind of alien-space 
ship.

Apparently no longer bridled 

with the intense emotional pain 
of DS2, Future’s latest album is 
above all a victory lap. “Seven 
Rings” establishes this album 
as the latest trophy in the line 
of his six previous. On track 
“Lie to Me” Future yells “I’m a 
motherfucking boss,” and while 
it’s only track eight, it feels like 
the final statement that this 
album leaves off with. There’s 
no “I think I went over my limit” 
here — Future has no limit.

Adding yet another ring to 

his hand, Future gives his fans 
everything they could ask for. 
And while the formula will 
inevitably become tired, EVOL 
is fresh enough to keep us 
interested.

B+

EVOL

Future 

A1

VICE takes on ISIS

By SOPHIA KAUFMAN

Daily Arts Writer

The Islamic State dominates 

our headlines. It’s impossible to 
ignore the stories that circulate 
every week, on 
the front pages 
of our newspa-
pers and pop-
ping up on our 
timelines 
and 

newsfeeds. 
Despite 
the 

seemingly end-
less wealth of 
information and 
current events, 
it can be dif-
ficult to find a 
comprehensive 
version of the 
“truth,” or a place to begin learn-
ing about the complicated sub-
ject matter. “Vice Special Report: 
Fighting ISIS” which aired on 
HBO on Jan. 31 offers a balanced, 
well-formulated introduction to 
what ISIS is, how it formed, how 
it’s operating today and how other 
groups are fighting against it.

The report begins with old 

footage of American politicians 
— including an extra-long shot of 
former president George W. Bush 
— and then an interview with 
a captured ISIS jihadist (name 
withheld). VICE correspondent 
Ben Anderson explores the build-
up and subsequent execution of 
the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, 
and talks to members of rebel 
groups in Iraq, captured ISIS 

jihadists in Kurdistan and even 
military forces in Syria. The one-
on-one interviews are intriguing 
but too short; there’s not enough 
time given after the build-up to 
let us fully establish a read on any 
single figure, including a captured 
Sunni Jihadist (name withheld) 
and Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker, 
a former U.S. ambassador to Iraq.

The balance between the emo-

tional pull of the subject matter 
and the focus on mapping out an 
informational and accurate por-
trayal of the history of ISIS and 
its current conflicts is aided by 
Anderson’s journalistic style in 
interviewing his subjects. He is 
calm and professional, and press-
es for answers that are more com-
plex than the ones he is initially 
given.

Anderson pushes his interview-

ees on what the future looks like, 
looking at it especially through a 
global lens as the Western world 
doubles down on fighting terror-
ism transnationally. One of the 
tensest moments of the special is 
when the journalist asks, “Is the 
U.S. more likely to face an attack 
from Iraqi soil today than it was 
under Saddam (Hussein)?” The 
short answer, according to mul-
tiple sources, is yes.

Though 
the 
percussive 

soundtrack throughout the report 
is usually unnecessary, as the nar-
ration is fascinating enough, it’s 
only mildly distracting. The audio 
of the interviews is clear and 
clean, and the voiceover is sharp, 
flowing smoothly over the busier 

background noise. The emphasis 
isn’t on Anderson’s travels into a 
dangerous area — though there 
are a few times in which he has 
to move due to circumstances 
involving sniper gunfire — but 
rather on the different groups of 
people he interviews.

“Fighting ISIS” has a rating 

of TV-MA, and for good reason. 
There’s footage of people being 
forced down on their faces with 
bags over the heads, people fall-
ing from gunshots, beheadings 
and children putting guns against 
the heads of prisoners. There are 
also a few minutes of interviews 
with women who have been vic-
tims of ISIS, giving space to show 
how families are torn apart by the 
conflicts. Luckily, these shots and 
interviews don’t read as manipu-
lative — though they easily could. 
They’re difficult to watch because 
of the fact that there is often 
nothing between the camera and 
the horrific events taking place; 
because they’re not overdramatic 
or exploitative, there’s nothing to 
point to to release the tension of 
those shots.

Though the report as a whole 

is fairly comprehensive, the end 
feels gimmicky. It returns to 
familiar rhetoric about terrorism 
and 9/11, news clips about the Nov. 
2015 Paris attacks and an ominous 
warning about the future looking 
grim. Though “Fighting ISIS” 
isn’t a superbly fleshed out repre-
sentation of the battle against ISIS 
and those who are on the front 
lines, it’s a fair introduction.

B

Vice 
Special 
Report: 
Fighting 
ISIS

Sunday at 
10 p.m.

HBO

MUSIC NOTEBOOK
Preferring Panama

By CATHERINE BAKER

Daily Arts Writer

I’ve been tracking Panama 

Wedding’s progress for about a 
year now. For those of you who 
don’t know, Panama Wedding 
is 
an 
electronic/alternative/

pop band based in Manhattan. 
Initially comprised of now-
lead singer Peter Kirk and his 
computer, 
Panama 
Wedding 

has since expanded into a 
full ensemble with a rhythm 
section. Kirk began his musical 
career as a classically trained 
pianist before turning to synth-
based music in his later years.

After releasing their debut 

EP, Parallel Play, in 2014, 
Panama 
Wedding 
amassed 

nationwide 
attention. 
Now, 

its second and most recent EP 
released in November 2015, Into 
Focus, has launched the band 
into a broader public sphere.

Into Focus starts off with 

“Halfway 
to 
Heaven,” 
an 

artificially produced track that 
emphasizes complicated beats 
and a strong vocal presence. 
The 
swelling 
chorus 
uses 

a heavy electric guitar and 
strong drumbeat to convey 
the storyline while the verses 
are faded and focused around 
Kirk’s voice. Kirk explains his 
own fears in the lyrics, “Wide 
awake in the middle of the 
desert heat / 100 miles to New 
Mexico / With the devil in my 
limousine.”

“Infinite 
High” 
has 
a 

softer, quieter electronic feel 
and sounds evoking summer 
sunsets and warm night drives. 
Its driving force is a steady 
beat with organic hand claps, 
while the chorus creates layers 
of multiple vocals to produce a 
larger band feel without losing 
intimacy 
with 
the 
listener. 

“Infinite High” speaks to being 
unsure of your place in life when 
Kirk sings, “And its getting all 
too much / Your life is getting 
hard / Living month to month 
on a credit card.”

Kirk’s most personal song on 

the EP, “Into Focus,” addresses 

his struggles of balancing work 
and music and how he overcame 
those 
difficulties. 
Starting 

slow with echoing beats and 
a repetitive guitar riff, Kirk 
sings, “I’m amazed why you 
would believe in me,” speaking 
to all of those without faith 
in themselves. He continues, 
“I’ve been working all day long 
/ I’ve been working out of my 
mind / Waiting for my thoughts 
to shape into focus.” It has a 
dance sound without feeling 
too electronic and lends a 
reassuring message to all those 
doubting their own focus.

My personal favorite track, “A 

Brand New Life,” has an upbeat 
underlying force pushing the 
song 
forward. 
It 
considers 

leaving everything behind and 
setting off for a fresh start. 
(Does that not sound great right 
now?) Kirk deals with being 
cheated by life plans when he 
sings, “I didn’t know / This was 
the ending I was sold.” With a 
sound extremely similar to The 
1975, “A Brand New Life” lays 
out dreams and hopes for the 
audience to share like, “I wanna 
live on the north shore / I wanna 
cut my hair.” The bridge is 
comprised of simple claps and a 
piano before the chorus returns 
one final time, driving home the 
point of leaving behind a life 
you’re unhappy with.

The closing song, “Younger 

Love,” is constituted of simple 
electric guitar and synth. It 
uses 
fewer 
instruments 
to 

demonstrate stripping yourself 
of all worldly stereotypes and 
understanding that we are all 
the same. Kirk concludes his 
EP by singing, “Isn’t it a small 
world? / Isn’t it a strange time? 
/ How we’re all forced to smile 
to each other.”

With just under 7,000 Twitter 

followers, Panama Wedding is 
by no means a household name, 
but by steadily expanding its fan 
base and consistently churning 
out 
quality 
music, 
Panama 

Wedding can expect continued 
and widespread success.

VICE

Is this Sean Penn?

TV REVIEW

Future’s latest 
album is above 
all a victory lap.

6A — Wednesday, February 10, 2016
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