Word: inflected
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...shriek.” And sometimes they do just that on their full-length debut “Myths of the Near Future.” The Klaxons are all about creating a fresh sound. While essentially a rock band, elements of both dance and pop music inflect their work. Songs such as “Atlantis to Interzone” and “Forgotten Works” feature repetitious, heavily rhythmic sections and infectious dance beats provided by live guitar and drum work, all reminiscent of techno and rave. Yet on songs like “Golden Skans?...
...style headphones. Potential pickup lines include “voulez-vous coucher avec moi?” and “Tu es muy caliente ay ay ay,” but we might need a little help with that pronunciation. Surely a freshman would know where to inflect the “ay?...
...don’t have to be blessed with superhuman skill and you don’t have to be a genius. All it takes is tons of practice and knowledge of what you want to do, countless repetitions of the same physical actions you need in order to inflect a note or shape a phrase. Then you repeat it in front of a crowd. At the end of the day, all you really need to understand about classical music is staring you right in the face...
...roll to me,” and this year, more than any other, I finally understand how rock surpasses so many other genres of music in its ability to grab a listener, hold them transfixed and then fling them away completely changed. The Strokes inflect all their songs with the same disaffected, frustrated tone, and The Raveonettes use the same three chords in every noirish number they perform, yet the final product of both bands is undoubtedly raw rock music. Strip away overproduced backup and the extra three minutes in synthesized pop interludes, and honest songs which speak with...