Word: melodicism
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This band swims the murky gulf between jazz and rock in search of fresh riffs. Entirely instrumental, the songs start with simple melodies that slowly make their way to climaxes full of overlapping rhythms that alternate between funky and mechanical. The Chicago quartet makes sure that the beat holds sway...
Steiner was one of the artists who changed all that. He wrote a very long, entirely original, and completely integrated score for "Kong." There were themes for all the principals, intriguing orchestrations, and passages of great melodic or rhythmic sophistication. I am listening to one playing in my brain as...
Matthews isn't the sole important member of the Dave Matthews Band (DMB for short). There's Carter Beauford, 42, the steady, disciplined drummer. Says Matthews: "One thing that drives me is trying to impress him." And there's Leroi Moore, 39, the saxman. "Leroi," says Matthews, "can make me...
But the differences between Coldplay and Radiohead go far beyond Coldplay's fresh-faced look. First, there's the music. Coldplay sticks to conventionally structured songs with melodic piano and guitar arrangements; in its recent work, Radiohead has left standard song forms behind and nearly abandoned traditional pop melodiousness. Then...
"The Country Girl" is part hokum, part harrowing portrait of an old performer (we won't say self-portrait). Odets' form of dramaturgy is to load the dice against the Kelly character, then let her load the gun against Crosby and Holden. Crosby is the least shrill; that is part...