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| Pastemagazine |
 Detroit quartet The Sights’ fourth full-length offering is about 70 percent rock, 20 percent ‘60s pop and just enough upbeat folk to rev the album into fifth gear. Hooky tracks like “3 Cheers” come along just in time for summertime windows-down driving; the Rock Band-worthy “How Do You Sleep?” runs completely on prominent electric guitar. And just to make sure there’s a little something for every musical mood, The Sights throw in the rock-twangy “I Left My Muse,” complete with pedal steel, a lilting rhythm and choral howls. The variety is nice, but the album would have been better if it had etched out a more defined route. On “Guilty,” the Sights play it safe, with half-hearted guitar riffs and slightly subdued vocals. “My songs, they might be true / But they don’t sing me back to you,” the band professes on “Back To You,” and the confession seems apt. At best, this is a good album for coasting—or any activity where you don’t have to pay full attention....full text |
| Blurt-online |
| While still in high school in the suburbs of Detroit, leader Eddie Baranek formed this exciting band and began turning heads with their 1999 debut, Are You Green? Two other records (and several tours of America and Europe) followed but it has been 5 years since the last Sights record (2005's self-titled record on the Sweet Nothing label) so fans of the band have been hungry for half a decade. With a new lineup (now expanded to a quartet) Baranek and company set out to make a statement, and on the new Most of What Follows is True (Sights Army; www.sightsarmy.com) they do indeed. The band comes out of the gate with the guitar-heavy "How Do You Sleep?" sounding like a mix between The Creation and Blue Cheer while "Hello to Everybody" is a charging power pop nugget which doesn't forget the humor ("Well I tried suicide but it wasn't for me, it got to be a little too trendy"). A few tunes add some nifty pedal steel ("I Left My Muse" and "Back to You") while the jangly "Maria" adds a nice Beatles touch to the proceedings (and "Happy" is pure 1967 Who with those opening Keith Moon-esque thundering drum fills)....full text |
| Cinemablend |
| USA’s new series, In Plain Sight is a dramedy that follows Mary Shannon (Mary McCormack), a U.S. Marshall who works in the Witness Protection Program keeping Federal witnesses safe. Alongside her partner, Marshall Mann (Fred Weller), Mary has to keep tabs on her witnesses and help them adjust to the program as they prepare to testify. The witnesses range from violent criminals to innocent people who were just in the wrong place at the wrong time. The short and sweet description for Mary is that she’s tough and at times, kind of a bitch. That said, she’s not unlikable as a character because her intentions are usually good. I almost want to compare her to an adult version of Veronica Mars except instead of having a kind, supportive dad to model herself after, Mary’s stuck with a flaky mom (Leslie Ann Warren) and a freeloading sister, (Nichole Hiltz) who’s caught up in some kind of drug dealing scam with her deadbeat boyfriend. Mary cares about the people she’s assigned to protect and that comes through when she’s working with them. But due to the nature of her job, she often has to be a bit of a hardass. An example of this is displayed in the pilot episode when she pelts a guy in the junk with a bar of soap to get him to take her seriously. She doesn’t mess around when it comes to her job and from what I can tell, it takes a lot to intimidate her. This is part of what makes her character so much fun to watch and a lot of the credit has to go To Mary McCormack for the way she pulls off the role. After getting to see the first few episodes of the season, I started to pick up on the format of the show. Each episode opens with the introduction of the new witness. We’re shown whatever it is they see/experience that results in them having to enter the Witness Protection Program. In one episode, it’s a kid who witnesses his mother getting shot. In another episode, a young girl and her boyfriend (played by Veronica Mars star Percy Daggs – yay!) are victims of a drive-by shooting and have to go into hiding because the shooter is part of a violent L.A. gang. Throughout each episode, Mary has to keep the witness safe and help them acclimate to the program, which can be quite a difficult task as not everyone takes to leaving their lives and identity behind so easily. It also seems like each episode has some kind of twist or reveal related to the witness. While it’s not really Mary’s job to solve crimes, when it comes to protecting her witness, sometimes that just comes with the territory. The reveal serves to add a bit of closure to the witness’ story....full text |
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