ACROSS
1 Transparent
7 Pasture mom
11 Beaver project
14 On the plane
15 Stein fillers
16 Detroit-to-
Harrisburg dir.
17 Latter-day Beau
Brummell
19 School support gp.
20 No longer on
one’s plate
21 Virtual people, in
a game series
22 Wrap for
leftovers
23 Ambles
25 Mount Rushmore
quartet
27 Eponymous ’80s
fiscal policy
31 Furry Persians
35 Norse god of war
36 Wood shaper
37 Home run jog
38 Grenoble’s river
41 Corned beef
order
42 Update, as a
cartographer
might
44 Bogotá’s land:
Abbr.
45 Cut a paragraph,
say
46 Crossbred guide
dog
50 “Vamoose!”
51 Threw with effort
55 Rocker David
Lee __
57 Southwestern
land formation
59 Lured (in)
61 Wall St. debut
62 17-, 27- or 46-
Across
64 Downing Street
address
65 Poker stake
66 Cool and
collected
67 Chemical suffix
68 Baseball gripping
point
69 Car radio button
DOWN
1 Like a weak
excuse
2 Skyscraper
support
3 Utah’s “Industry,”
for one
4 Cuts the rind off
5 Crease maker, or
crease remover
6 Cavity filler’s deg.
7 Modest skirt
8 Grad who may
use “née” in a
college
newsletter
9 Good thinking
10 Night school
subj.
11 Added to one’s
bank account
12 Piedmont wine
region
13 McDonald’s
“Happy” offering
18 Op-ed pieces
22 Hen or ewe
24 Himalayan
legend
26 Note between fa
and la
28 __-Roman
wrestling
29 Spiced Indian
brew
30 On its way
31 PC key not used
alone
32 Geometry
calculation
33 Arizona town
where the Earps
and Clantons
fought
34 Collar stiffener
39 ’90s White House
name
40 Glamour rival
43 Bogey beater
47 Crooner Vic
48 Mafioso code of
honor
49 W-2 form recipient
52 “À __ santé!”
53 Olympic
swords
54 Revolutionary
diplomat Silas
55 Solemn
ceremony
56 Start the bidding
58 Goblet part
60 “Mrs. Robinson,”
e.g.
62 Partners for mas
63 Cairo cobra
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Arts
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Miike Snow create
more odd indie pop
By SAM ROSENBERG
Daily Arts Writer
Listening to Swedish indie-
pop trio Miike Snow is like a
box of chocolates: you never
know
what
you’re gonna
get. In 2009,
the
band
released a fun,
albeit imper-
fect,
first
record, filled
with
indie
gems
like
“Animal” and dance-oriented
jams like “Silvia.” Their experi-
mental sound as a whole came
from various pop influences,
such as synthpop (The Postal
Service), EDM (Swedish House
Mafia) and electronica (The
Chemical
Brothers).
In
the
years following their self-titled
debut, the group relished in
unexpected
popularity,
gar-
nering recognition from both
indie and mainstream listen-
ers and playing at big festivals
like Coachella. However, after
a lukewarm reception of their
2012 sophomore record Happy
to You, Miike Snow’s spontane-
ous 15 minutes of fame quietly
subsided. This year, however,
the group has returned to the
music scene with their appro-
priately titled third record iii.
Though they’ve been gone for a
few years now, Snow’s iii marks
their resurgence into pop music
in 2016, even if it doesn’t break
any new ground in their discog-
raphy.
When you have a group of
producers at the helm of a
music project like Miike Snow,
the style frequently takes pre-
cedence over the substance.
Take, for example, the album’s
opener, “My Trigger,” a jovial,
peppy number that struggles
to make any sense lyrically (it
contains the line, “I saw you
licking a dollar bill / I’m in the
graveyard if looks could kill”).
The next track “The Heart of
Me” is in touch with modern
pop, imbuing some Passion Pit
and Mylo Xyloto-era Coldplay
flair to its bubbly rhythm. Yet
like most of Miike Snow’s work,
it lacks a compelling story and
lyrical coherence. Additionally,
iii’s two lead singles, “Geng-
his Khan” and “Heart is Full,”
are the album’s most divi-
sive tracks. The former has a
groovy, finger-snapping beat,
but its questionable chorus (“I
get a little bit Genghis Khan
/ Don’t want you to get it on
with nobody else but me”) and
the fact that the song is named
after an infamous Mongolian
emperor doesn’t bode well with
its catchiness. The latter boasts
a hip-hop heavy instrumental,
but its superior remix with rap
duo Run the Jewels, listed as
a bonus track on iii, makes for
a much better listen than the
sluggish original.
This is not to say, however,
that Snow doesn’t excel at bring-
ing forth infectious jingles. The
Charli XCX-assisted “For U” is an
exercise in glittery, hyperactive
electro-pop, with Snow produc-
ers Bloodshy & Avant transform-
ing the densely filtered song
into a jittery banger. The dark “I
Feel the Weight” contains some
of Snow’s most mature mate-
rial to date; lead singer Andrew
Wyatt lends a vulnerable vocod-
ed warble to complement the
song’s theme of self-loathing and
detachment from a relationship.
The opening piano notes of “Back
of the Car” mimic a Regina Spe-
ktor melody, but the song gradu-
ally grows with Wyatt’s fluttery
falsetto, some funky 808s and
even a violin and electric guitar
breakdown; it’s easily the stron-
gest and most listenable track on
the album.
However, the problem with
iii is that even though Miike
Snow offers their own dis-
tinctive technique, the record
can’t help but feel as though it’s
derivative of other pop records.
Snow doesn’t really need to
really write great songs — they
are primarily producers, after
all. But considering that iii
sticks comfortably with Snow’s
unconventional
flourishes,
there’s still room for growth.
ATLANTIC
Which one of you is Miike with all the Is?
ALBUM REVIEW
FILM REVIEW
Powerful ‘Beast’
Japanese film may
challenge your
stereotypes of anime
By ANA LUCENA
Daily Arts Writer
Even with its kid-friendly
anime conventions,“The Boy and
the Beast” has fantastic charac-
ters that make
the fantastical
worlds they live
in feel real. The
film might sur-
prise some with
preconcieved
notions
about
anime. Case in
point: when I
told my mom
I was going to
watch an anime
movie, she expressed shock that
a theater would show two hours’
worth of “that weird Japanese
cartoon thing you watch on You-
Tube.” But there is anime that
rises above the skepticism, and
“The Boy and the Beast” is a good
example of why.
The Beast Kingdom is inhab-
ited by anthropomorphized ani-
mals, as the name suggests. In
it, the difficult and lazy beast
Kumatetsu
(Koji
Yakusho,
“Shall We Dance?”) is compet-
ing against the orderly Iôzen
(Kazuhiro Yamaji, “One-Punch
Man”) to succeed the kingdom’s
retiring Lord. On the advice of
the Lord, Kumatetsu looks for
a pupil to teach so he can get
inspired to train harder. The
Kumatetsu and teacher Iôzen
are devoted to practicing kendo,
which harkens back to a sim-
pler time in Asia when martial
arts masters lived through more
drama than “Dance Moms.”
Meanwhile, in the human world,
young Kyuta (Shota Sometani,
“Bakuman”) is devastated by
the sudden death of his divorced
mother in a car accident. Since
his father is absent, he must be
taken in by new legal guardians.
But he won’t stand for it. The
driving force of the movie is pre-
sented right away through the
dialogue, making the plot easy to
follow. Instead of staying, Kyuta
runs away in the bustling streets
of Tokyo full of rage. The anger
at his mother’s random passing is
taken seriously, refreshingly vali-
dating the strong emotions of a
child protagonist. Kyuta encoun-
ters Kumatetsu and follows him
to the Beast Kingdom, where he
becomes the beast’s student. The
leap of faith makes sense after
seeing the tragedy Kyuta is trying
to escape. Eventually, he is drawn
back to the human world and is
torn as he looks for what his place
is in both. The close relationship
that Kyuta and Kumatetsu devel-
op make the emotional conflict
palpable.
The clear exposition of the
characters’ lives at the beginning
of the movie brought their respec-
tive worlds to life. After knowing
Kyuta’s situation, his reactions to
the Beast Kingdom felt natural in
spite of its fictional complexity.
Their friendship was success-
fully constructed by showing
how similar their personalities
are, while still maintaining their
uniqueness as individuals.
The animation is stunning.
The landscapes at times looked
like actual photographs of Tokyo.
The
background
characters’
movements were so vivid that
at first glance, I thought I was
watching video footage of the
city. The swooping zoom-ins
of both worlds were disorient-
ing because I’ve never seen such
human movement from such wild
angles.
Just like in real life, the char-
acters are fleshed out with both
virtues and flaws. There are no
stereotypical good guys or bad
guys vying for the viewer’s sym-
pathy (or disdain). This let the
plot organically grow from its
characters, which kept the plot
from feeling predictable.
The film does have a few
childish points that detracted
from its authenticity. The fight-
ing sequences between Kuma-
tetsu and Iôzen felt a little like
TV anime - unnaturally slow,
with little action. These scenes
focused on how determined the
two are on beating each other
while avoiding the need to actu-
ally show them beating each
other. The kingdom’s Lord, a
cute, mustachioed bunny with a
silly sing-songy voice, was used
as a fairly cloying comic relief.
But, taking into consideration
that “The Boy and the Beast”
was made for a family audience,
I think these shortcomings are
excusable.
This movie follows in the foot-
steps of Studio Ghibli in mak-
ing the universal adventure of a
young lead character relatable
to a wide audience. I got excited
seeing Kyuta come into his own
in the magical Beast Kingdom,
remembering the sense of adven-
ture and hope I felt as a little girl
reading fantasy stories. Age is not
a factor in enjoying a fun adven-
ture if the story is told well.
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The Boy
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Miike Snow
Atlantic
Miike Snow’s
style takes
precedence over
the substance.