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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B+

The Boy 
and the 
Beast

State Theatre

Toho

B

iii

Miike Snow

Atlantic

Miike Snow’s 

style takes 

precedence over 
the substance.

