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"&lt;p&gt;Dry the River take their music so seriously, even &lt;a href=\"../../music/artists/sting\"&gt;Sting&lt;/a&gt; would giggle. The debut from this London five-piece, who&amp;apos;ve gotten loads of Mumford &amp;amp; Sons comparisons, shouts &amp;quot;We&amp;apos;re intense!&amp;quot; at every moment &amp;#x2013; especially in the trembling falsetto of former choirboy Peter Liddle. He crams his tales of spiritual torment with biblical and agrarian imagery (oxen, a woodcutter) as the music, played in shifting rhythms, rises like &amp;#x2013; well, it can&amp;apos;t rise because it&amp;apos;s always at a full-on peak, especially when joined by the group&amp;apos;s violinist, who is, alas, classically trained. It&amp;apos;s like a &lt;em&gt;Portlandia&lt;/em&gt; satire of the world&amp;apos;s most studious band.&lt;/p&gt;\r\n&lt;wm:embed type=\"related\"&gt;&lt;/wm:embed&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Listen to &amp;quot;Weights &amp;amp; Measures&amp;quot;: &lt;/strong&gt; \r\n&lt;object width=\"100%\" height=\"81\" data=\"https://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F26983650&amp;amp;show_comments=true&amp;amp;auto_play=false&amp;amp;color=ff7700\" type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\"&gt;\r\n&lt;param name=\"data\" value=\"https://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F26983650&amp;amp;show_comments=true&amp;amp;auto_play=false&amp;amp;color=ff7700\"&gt;\r\n&lt;param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"&gt;\r\n&lt;param name=\"src\" value=\"https://player.soundcloud.com/player.swf?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F26983650&amp;amp;show_comments=true&amp;amp;auto_play=false&amp;amp;color=ff7700\"&gt;\r\n&lt;/object&gt;\r\n&lt;span&gt;&lt;a href=\"http://soundcloud.com/drytheriver\"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;\r\n&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&amp;#x2022; &lt;a href=\"../../../randomnotes\"&gt;Photos: Random Notes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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