![]() Ocean Spell is both dreamy and danceable, which has always been a perfect combination. It’s the kind of deeply emotional dance-pop that New Order seems to have forgotten how to make. The title song builds up from spacious dub echoes into a full-on wall of sound. On “Upside Down,” frenetic drums and soaring synths couch an enjoyably devious vocal melody. But that would only amount to surface sheen without great songs. Thus, Dream Thieves is almost perfectly optimized for this post-modern moment, standing on the shoulders of just the right giants to maximize their cool. Andrea’s voice brings to mind Mazzy Star’s Hope Sandoval, but also ‘60s French icons like Jane Birkin and France Gall. Which brings us to Ocean Spell, Dream Thieves’ debut album, which echoes ‘80s synth-pop but incorporates it into a thick, shimmering shoegazer wall of sound, fronted by Andrea Sheehan’s pure vocal tone. Get down to making the crouching inches in your pad a bit more expansive and leverage the area skilfully to spell sheer fluidity of space, even in modest. Recent re-issues, like The Minimal Wave Tapes compilation from Stone’s Throw, and Camino Del Sol by Antena, are at last exposing the wider world to this music. Gary Numan, Depeche Mode and New Order were the commercially successful tip of the iceberg, but many other bands never broke out of their local art and music scenes. and Europe, centered around the use of the then-new synthesizers and drum machines. This rental was going to be harder to move than Spencer originally thought.While Americans were going nuts for Blondie, The Cars and a plethora of other skinny tie bands in the New Wave ‘80s, an underground scene sprang up in the U.S. ![]() She complained the photos were deceptive, and the ad copy was specious. At a height of 6’2, she felt claustrophobic in the space. When his first potential client showed up, she looked around in profound disappointment. ![]() Though it was only 600 square feet, his ad had described it as spacious and affordable, the best of both worlds for a young person in the big city. Spencer was showing a tiny condo unit to a potential client this afternoon. The following story uses both words correctly: This is achieved by having minimal furniture and accessories in the room and white (or pale colored) walls. Pushing furniture back against walls, are all ways to create a “spacious” feeling. It means creating the feeling of wide open space, of having lots of room to move around.įor example, in real estate, making rooms feel bigger than they are is a key interior design tactic. Spacious (pronounced “spay-shuss”) is an adjective. It can also mean a pleasant statement lacking depth. ![]() It can mean pleasurable on the surface, but deceitful or deceptive underneath. broad in scope, range, inclusiveness, etc a spacious approach to a problem SYNONYMS 1. of a great extent or area broad large great the spacious prairies 4. containing much space, as a house, room, or vehicle amply large 2. Specious (pronounced “spee-shuss”) is an adjective. spacious in American English (speis) adjective 1. They don’t help you out, but they do make you laugh. It’s suggesting what word you may want to save time, but quite often, its suggestions are pretty off base. If you used words that are all spelled correctly, it gives you a pass anyway.Īutocorrect suggests words that start with the same letters. It doesn’t know and can’t guess what word you wanted, or what word you meant, it can only judge the words on the page. Spell-check is looking for words that aren’t in its dictionary, and words that resemble words in its dictionary, but are possibly spelled wrong. The spell-check application of most word processing software programs would not catch a slip-up of these two words. Specious and spacious are easily confused words.
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