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need to interpret that album review in rolling stone?

1.Female singers (or male singers with high voices) + reverb = "ethereal"

2.Male or female singers with low voices + reverb = "gothic"

3.Male or female singers with low voices + reverb + lap steel = "American gothic"

4.Male or female singers with low voices + reverb + lap steel + misused big words = "Faulknerian"

5.Rock band + harpsichord = "Baroque"

6.Rock band + strings = "lush"

7.Rock band + orchestra = "sweeping"

8.Rock band + orchestra + timpani = "cinematic"

9.Rock band + orchestra + synthesiser = "overblown"

10.Thrown out of music school for poor grades = "classically trained"

11.Unfinished = "stark"

12.Unfinished + full of mistakes = "honest"

13.Clumsy rhyme + lack of melody = "Dylanesque"

14.Acoustic guitar + singer's inability to hit high note = "yearning"

15.Self-pity + tuneless moaning + band member's suicide (attempted or successful) = "desperation"

16.Self-pity + slow tempo + strings = "rueful"

17.Self-pity + tuneless moaning + cliché = "lyricism"

18.Singer sounds strangled or hysterical = "passionate"

19.Singer sounds strangled or hysterical + incomprehensible lyrics = "poetic"

20.Boring + plodding = "ponderous"

21.Boring + plodding + very long = "hypnotic"

22.Copyright infringement + cliché = "irony"

23.Names of celebrities or products + cliché = "satire"

24.Names of celebrities or products + avoidance of cliché = "absurdism"

25.Cliché + repetition = "catchy"

26.Cliché +repetition + calculation = "pure pop"

27.Midtempo beat + live + cover version = "scorching"

28.Out-of-tune = "dissonant"

29.Out-of-tune + eight-minute song = "uncompromising"

30.Out-of-tune + eight-minute song + can't keep a beat = "genius"

31.Out-of-tune + can't keep a beat + cover version = "deconstructionist"

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