Word: balladic
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Portastatic’s new album is a pleasant ballad collection for the seasonal warmth, with upbeat rhythms and alternately rousing and wistful lyrics by vocalist and drummer Mac McCaughan. Portastatic are a relaxed and unpretentious change from McCaughan’s well known indie band Superchunk...
Treble Charger were the answer to mid-’90s Canadian teen angst. Whether rocking out to power-pop anthems like “Friend of Mine” or making out to the doleful ballad “Red,” teenagers knew that Treble Charger made music that mattered. For the rest, their hopelessly obsessive but charged songs were still good...
Regardless, it’s clear that the downtempo rock ballad is Ashcroft’s specialty—and for good reason. Few rock artists can so effectively wield an orchestra as thematic element, and even fewer have (as Ashcroft has done) managed to compose memorable instrumental lines that utterly complement the vocals...
...Minutes of Madonna’s new anti-war ballad entitled “American Life...
...watching not just a white kid who sang black, but a man who moved like a antsy woman. And sometimes sang like one. Around his 19th birthday, a year before he hooked up with Sam Phillips' Sun Records, Elvis did a demo tape he recorded a noble-masochism ballad called "I'll Never Stand in Your Way." (The cut appears on RCA's four-CD, 100-song set "Platinum: A Life in Music.") Here his voice is thin, nasal, with an attack of naked innocence and, yes, a feminine vibrato...