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There is something beautiful about the ability to create a sense of variety. That… There is something beautiful about the ability to create a sense of variety. That beauty comes from experiencing a series of things each so different and unique, yet sharing a common element, linking themselves together while begging for an appearance of separation.

Over the Rhine, the Ohio-based husband and wife team of Karin Bergquist and Linford Detweiler explores this notion extremely well instrumentally, vocally and lyrically in Films for Radio, their first studio album in five years.

Each song examines and sounds like something heard before, but then changes to something different. A song will sound like a standard pop tune, but then the depth of instrumentation begins to form and mature in your head, creating something much more complex and sophisticated than a typical song.

Detweiler, who primarily writes the words and music, plays as many as nine instruments in a single song. Every note he plays accents the painfully beautiful words Bergquist sings.

The songs seem to be love songs, but they cannot be categorized as such. A run-of-the-mill love song may concern itself with lost love or a desire for love, but Over the Rhine

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