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One hates to use a sexist's favorite word, but she came off as shrill.
Pans for this tale of four high-school boys and their quest to watch a Kiss concert: "loud, vulgar, cartoonish, obnoxious, dizzying, disposable and more than a little bit shrill" (Jim DeRogatis, the Chicago Sun-Times ). Highlight: a tongue-cam point of view from inside Gene Simmons' mouth.
It is a play with clear imperfections, such as an excessively shrill third act.
The misgivings of scientists are particularly shrill in Frameshift , by Canadian sci-fi writer Robert J. Sawyer.
Add the shrill vocals of former Sex Pistol John Lydon, and the result is Leftfield's hectoring "." Drench a track in shadowy atmosphere, and the result is the ominous soundscape of Tricky's "." Combine '50s "space" music, French pop balladeering, and Marxist catch phrases, and the result is such Stereolab confections as "." Transpose the cyclical rhythms of dance music (and work by minimalist composers like Steve Reich) to guitars, and the result is the hypnotic disorientation of My Bloody Valentine's "." Include reggae rhythms and quotations from Indian and Arabic music, and the result is the ethno-techno of Loop Guru tracks like "."