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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