Review: ‘Outer Peace’ expresses youth disillusion through music

This past January, Toro y Moi (also known as Chaz Bear) released his sixth album, “Outer Peace.” Inspired by the electronic dance music of Daft Punk and Wally Badarou’s synthpop, “Outer Peace” is a breezy 10 tracks, spanning just over 30 minutes. As a whole, the album is very easy to listen to — the tracks are generally composed of low-fi, low energy, yet upbeat beats and melodies — and none of them are longer than four minutes. On the surface, Toro y Moi has produced a fun, and at times quirky, album full of hits that can be played at a wide range of events, whether it be at a party that’s about to hit its peak or at a study table that needs a pick-me-up. A deeper dive into the album with closer listening, though, reveals that Toro y Moi has also subtly inputted his own little touches of tongue-in-cheek ironic flair and his sense of pessimistic disillusionment to which millennials and Gen Zers can definitely relate.

Ahsan: The Meat of the Argument

People’s defensiveness about eating meat is revealing.

Truong: Payback Time

 “Reparations” are no solution to racial inequality.

Five Dartmouth students selected as Fulbright scholars

Last month, five Dartmouth students and one recent graduate were informed that they had been selected as 2019 Fulbright scholars.

Regan: Read a Book

Or a haiku, something, anything!

Dernbach: Transition

If April showers bring May flowers, then what does April snow bring?

Leutz: Stop the Madness

It’s time to compensate college athletes.

Natives at the Museum: Reflecting on colonial spaces through art

Native Americans and museums have historically had a tenuous relationship which is tied to the root of both what museums are meant to do and how much Native “art” over the years has made it into museums. I am by no means an expert, but I will attempt to provide some context on this subject. I am Tlingit, a tribe native to southeastern Alaska. I am Raven moiety from the Ganaxteidi clan. My Tlingit name is Andaxjoon. I am a beginning student of my language, which I have tried to use in this piece, though English grammar has been applied to some of them for the purposes of the article. Some items created by Tlingit people are in possession of the Hood Museum of Art, and thus, I will mostly be using those as examples in this article because they are the items on which I have the most authority to speak.

Editors' Note

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Mirror Asks

Review: ‘Dumbo’ is an aimless live-action remake of a classic

In his essay “What is Digital Cinema?” media theorist Lev Manovich notes that cinema ultimately began with animation. Magic lanterns, phenakistoscopes, zootropes. They all relied, in a sense, on a form of hand-drawn animation. Whereas many of his fellow theorists posit that cinema is the “art of the index,” defined by its ability to record reality, Manovich contends that its very origins position cinema as “the art of motion.” Thus, for Manovich, the dominance of computer-generated imagery animation in “live-action” films in recent years is not some existential threat to the very essence of film but rather the medium returning to its roots. 

Morin: 19Sentiments

In the seventeenth chapter of her cartoon series, Morin observes the mixed feelings of spring term.