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The Elected MUSIC Sun, Sun, Sun
Sun, Sun, Sun is the second album from The Elected, which is fronted by Rilo Kiley's Blake Sennett, and features Mike "Caveman" Bloom, Ozma's Daniel
Brummel on bass and Ryland Steen (of Reel Big Fish) and Jason Boesel sharing drum duties. It also features guest performances by Rilo's frontwoman, Jenny Lewis, and Eisley's singer/ keyboard player, Stacy DuPree.
This album is a natural progression from the band's last album - rich in Elliott Smith-like vocal melodies and an alt-country feel mixed with an experimental edge. Though, unlike a lot of alt-country bands, The Elected doesn't waste an entire album writing repetitive mid-tempo songs about driving.
One of the standout tracks on the album is "Not Going Home," a song Sennett has said is about being on tour with Rilo Kiley and accepting
the fact that the tour bus is now his home. Another favorite is the stripped down acoustic song,"Sun, Sun, Sun," where Sennett lets go and gives one of his most emotional performances on the album.
With Sun,
Sun, Sun, The Elected manage to make a
great alt-country album while adding their own fresh twist on it. Adding saxophones, trumpets, piano and more help to bring well-deserved attention to The Elected, who have made an album better than their first.
★★★★
Chris Brower
The Matrix: Path of Neo
Now this is what it's like to be in The Matrix A good old-fashioned brawler is a good way to go.
You assume the identity of Neo, "the one," savior of mankind, as you travel through each of The Matrix movies. The game goes beyond the movies.
The main focus of the game is hand-to-hand combat. As the game still supports a gun-battling engine, the hand-to-hand combat system is more thorough. The button combination system is hard to get used to. Knowing when to press the buttons in the sequences can become quite difficult since the timing feels off at times. As in the
movies, Nee has the ability to fight multiple opponents at one time and make it look like a fluid dance. But, once again, it's all about button timing.
The graphics may not be the best, but Path of Neo makes up for it in the game play. The characters don't look realistic in the slightest and the environment isn't a real spectacle.
agents.
The gameplay is pretty straightforward:
You have many enemies coming at you and it's up to you to defeat them all.
However, some levels go off in a tangent such as escaping from the Merovingian online maze and getting through the subway trying to escape
The game isn't a hard game to comprehend and at least deserves a rental.
PS2,Xbox
★★★★
Chris Moore
22> JAYPLAY 02.09.2006