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Disney Hall is famed for its vivid acoustics, yet at relatively close proximity details could be still be hard to pick out in the clattery texture.

Long and clattery, the dining room is warmed up with vintage accents and young servers who look after you like good neighbors.

The more clattery things get, the better.

A modern, hit-bound ballad has to cut through the thicket of clattery trap music and maximalist pop that normally leads the 2010s hit parade, and throughout this decade, the secret to scoring a hit with a ballad has been removing as many normal pop-song elements as possible—losing the percussion and reducing the song to an ascetic, preferably piano-based sonic template à la Adele’s “Someone Like You.”

The aforementioned “Bring U Down” is backed not only by promiscuous producer Ryan Tedder but apparently most of his bandmates from One Republic—who clearly have heard Nevermind, given the track’s construction around a restrained bass lick that builds to more clattery bits.