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  • Track 3 of the Brassland/MFR online EP comes from the Devastations, whose sound blends together an amazing mix of sweet, dark melodies, deep and resonant vocals, and a theatrical quality that makes this track in particular seem like it belongs next to the Leonard Cohen song on the Natural Born Killers soundtrack.

    Music (For Robots): August 2006 Archives 2006

  • Track 3 of the Brassland/MFR online EP comes from the Devastations, whose sound blends together an amazing mix of sweet, dark melodies, deep and resonant vocals, and a theatrical quality that makes this track in particular seem like it belongs next to the Leonard Cohen song on the Natural Born Killers soundtrack.

    Hump day = Track 3 (Music (For Robots)) 2006

  • Tune in all this week, for a new track each weekday (collect all five!), including today's offering from the über-smoother-crooner Baby Dayliner, as well as songs from MFR favorites Pela in addition to forthcoming and unlreased tracks from Erik Friedlander, Clogs, and Devastations.

    Music (For Robots): August 2006 Archives 2006

  • Tune in all this week, for a new track each weekday (collect all five!), including today's offering from the über-smoother-crooner Baby Dayliner, as well as songs from MFR favorites Pela in addition to forthcoming and unlreased tracks from Erik Friedlander, Clogs, and Devastations.

    Copper is on the rise, but Brass is worth pure love (Music (For Robots)) 2006

  • Compensation for the Devastations they have committed.

    John Adams diary 36, 17 - 22 November 1782 1961

  • While Dragut was pursuing his "Horrid Devastations," Doria was not idle, but was ranging the northern coast of Africa in his fruitless search; in the course of this he landed at Cape Bona, on which was the castle of

    Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean E. Hamilton Currey

  • While the admiral was in harbour, Dragut, finding the seas open to him once more, returned from his "Horrid Devastations," and employed his time profitably in throwing provisions and men into the city, which he knew would be beleagured in the following year.

    Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean E. Hamilton Currey

  • Or does he at last poorly place it in the Triumph of his injurious Devastations?

    An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume I 1889

  • Devastations, of which the husbandman was either the victim or the accomplice, must have ruined the agriculture of Sicily; and as the principal estates were the property of the opulent senators of Rome, who often enclosed within a farm the territory of an old republic, it is not improbable, that this private injury might affect the capital more deeply, than all the conquests of the Goths or the

    History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 Edward Gibbon 1765

  • [169] Devastations, of which the husbandman was either the victim or the accomplice, must have ruined the agriculture of Sicily; and as the principal estates were the property of the opulent senators of Rome, who often enclosed within a farm the territory of an old republic, it is not improbable, that this private injury might affect the capital more deeply, than all the conquests of the Goths or the

    History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 Edward Gibbon 1765

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