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...It has been eight years since the last Wallflowers album, Glad All Over. However, completing Echo in the Canyon has helped unlock something. “I have new music,” he says....
...The 1960s still makes other decades cringe like dowdy wallflowers at a party. This is understandable enough. The artistic feats were legion....
...Alessia Cara’s breakthrough hit “Here” positioned the Canadian as a rebellious wallflower, the kind of teenager who, upon going to a party full of dope smoke and boys shouting over loud music, feels compelled...
...His rock pool is the down-and-groovy demi-monde where music lovers spend their limpet lives swapping records, bantering about bands, falling in love to the sound of their own mix discs....
...She’s not a shy wallflower. She’s a strong adventurous woman with a free spirit.” She could be describing herself....
...Billie Marten sings, in breathy high tones that convey the wistful ache of a wallflower at the edge of the action....
...Elsewhere, a version of Peter Gabriel’s “Wallflower”, about civilians “disappeared” during a dirty war, enervates the impact of Gabriel’s mounting hymnal chords, and some of the autobiographical material...
...The most striking irritation is the music. Many co-working spaces have a loop of pop or dance music played through the offices....
...Diana Krall Wallflower (Decca) Luxuriant but dull, Diana Krall’s Wallflower teams the singer with schmaltzy producer David Foster in an attempt to create sophisticated adult-oriented pop....
...The Monocle Arts Review, broadcast daily online, divides into 15-minute podcasts that separately cover books, theatre, film, television, art, music and TV....
...It is hospitable to quirky misfits, occasionally chivvying a wallflower like REM’s Michael Stipe into superstardom. British rock, which borders on to football culture, can have a laddish edge....
...To restore his reputation, he attempts to woo his former stage discovery, Lily Garland, a wallflower from the Bronx who has blossomed into a Hollywood star, to appear in his next play....
...Wallflowers do not prosper in telecoms. Orange has heard the music. Tweet the Lex team at @FTLex...
...“She has always been the same [with fashion] as her music or her art; she’s always searching for something that is meaningful,” says Tony Simon....
...In the UK, the music is shale gas, and Total, the French oil company, is no wallflower. It is investing £28.5m in a 40 per cent stake in two licences in Lincolnshire....
...With dance and music, at least we know that the performer’s apparent ease is the result of years of dedication. They’re doing something we couldn’t do, and we applaud accordingly....
...Think of Owen, add a beard and brains, and hook him up with a 16-years-younger girl (Elizabeth Olsen) who opens the 35-year-old’s soul by giving him a mix-tape of classical music....
...Latin numbers often get the wallflowers up and dancing.” Rosenthal accepts his 78rpm releases might be “perceived as a gimmick”. That doesn’t worry him....
...● FT Comment Only the most churlish of wallflowers would suggest that better music, better drinks and better toilets were not good ideas for attracting people to clubs....
...Things changed, however, during “Three Marlenas”, one of the best-known Wallflowers tracks, cast here as a heartland rocker with silver-polished spurs....
...So the Yahoo-Nokia image that comes to mind is that of a couple of wallflowers at the high school dance, eyeing the clock and each other, and deciding they might as well have one go before the music stops...
...Isn’t “music” the narrative throughout? The music that underscores our emotional lives, the refrains and melodies of desire, the sustaining pedal of hopeless hope, the timpani of thou-shalt-not....
...Sir Isaac Newton, four centuries before, had remained a wallflower, seeing the South Sea Bubble for what it was. But he was persuaded to take the floor for the last waltz....
...Some members were wallflowers, but others were chatty, posting upwards of 800,000 status updates through the partner sites....
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