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Tim Foley’s Indie Pop Joy, And More Music News and Gossip
Garden OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS: Tim Foley (Bosco, Super Carnival Recordings) has a new album out with his job Tim Foley & The Moths. It is titled The Orbital Leap, and the whole issue is a really free, freely flowing river of indie pop pleasure. Indeed, Foley has assembled a selection of some of the most positive lyrics to appear out of Athens in a long time. Musically speaking, Foley and his band seem to make rapid do the job of their tunes, and the group’s relaxed, assured design would make it simple for them to place a unique fingerprint on these types of XTC-ish tracks these as the title one…
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This mini Instax printer brings me the joy of instant photography without the pain
Each couple of months, I’ll discover myself on Amazon.com agonizing around the execs and downsides of obtaining an fast digital camera. My newest instant-cam fantasies have been revolving all over the Polaroid Now+, one particular of the ideal instantaneous cameras we’ve reviewed. Its legendary style and design would make it glance like a modern day version of a retro snapper, and it arrives with mod cons like an accompanying smartphone application that opens up new creative prospects for your images. But at $150 / £139 for the digicam and about $2 / £2 for every shot, it’s just not a purchase I sense I can justify. So I near the…
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The music, joy and superpower of a multigenerational Latino family
In an age of big-screen superhero families like those of Marvel’s “Fantastic Four,” Pixar’s “The Incredibles” and DC’s “Shazam!” Disney wants to flip the script on viewers and put the spotlight on an ordinary 15-year-old Colombian girl, Mirabel, who struggles to keep her extended superhero family together as they lose their powers. “Encanto,” which means “charm” in Spanish, is Disney’s 60th animated feature film. It tells the story of the Madrigals, a multigenerational family who live in the mountains of Colombia. Two generations of Madrigal children get magical powers on their fifth birthdays, which define them both at home and in the village. They can make plants grow and flowers…