Word: riffs
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...they can flip samples, Kanye sticks his neck out—stretching and fitting them together into sweeping intros, ornate choruses and hooks aplenty (best example: “Family Business”). He makes the art more like a genuine songcraft, for better or worse—no riff or melodic phrase repeats itself for long before it’s quickly interrupted or joined by new instruments...
...living evidence that Cage was nearly perfect in his on-screen portrayal of that self-referential script’s author. Kaufman has the same quietly intense air as his film double, leans over in the same way to burst out with a self-deprecating jab or an enthusiastic riff...
...A.I.M.” (not related to our favorite electronic pastime) begins with a coarse industrial beat, develops with Yorke-like, dreamy lyrics and peaks with a driving, distortion-saturated chorus and sweet lyric hook. “Promises, Promises” expands from a straight-ahead power riff, introducing altered chords and electronic ambience to achieve a more engaging result, and, along with “New Toys,” has real FM radio appeal. The album’s worst moments occur when the genre-synthesis feels most contrived. “Into My Arms?...
...underground- music scene has been faster than any London tube-station escalator. Almost unheard of a few months ago, this month Franz Ferdinand found itself on the cover of Britain's tastemaking bible the NME with the headline: this band will change your life. Their second single, a riff-driven disco stomp called Take Me Out, entered the British charts at No. 3, boding well for the release of their first eponymous album on Feb. 9. Why all the hype? Their winning formula is exciting but familiar: a tightly arranged take on late-'70s influences, from Talking Heads...
...Iraq troubles in a fresh burst of soaring rhetoric. But the speech grew out of a trip in June to Aqaba, Jordan, where Bush met with then Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas and Israel's Ariel Sharon. Speaking later to Republican congressional leaders, Bush "went off on a riff," says an official who was there, about the promise for democracy in the embattled region. California Representative Chris Cox issued an invitation on the spot to have Bush reprise his remarks for last week's meeting of a Reagan-inspired group called the National Endowment for Democracy...