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| | FORWARD : Arts & Letters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | The album, featuring lyrics by Jonathan Ames, Margaret Atwood, Paul Auster, Dave Eggers, A.M. Holmes and Darin Strauss, among others, will be released in the spring by Bar/None Records, along with a book published simultaneously by Soft Skull Press. |
 | | Musically, the album has one foot firmly in klezmer territory, with lots of wandering clarinets and trombones, and the other kicking around in indie rock record bins, knocking old musical clichés into surprising new shapes. |
 | | Daniel Handler, better known as the best-selling children's author Lemony Snicket, contributed one of the album's best songs, a kind of Elvis Costello-meets-klezmer hybrid called "Radio." With sharp wordplay of the sort one would expect from an author, the song is a fast-paced alt-rocker in a minor key, adorned with flourishes of clarinet. |
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