Word: sound
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...Throughout the panel, Parra described how he thought about “warping” music—manipulating elements like tempo and pitch to alter the “mass” of any given note or dilate the listener’s sense of temporality. The resulting sound he produced is quite unique—unsettling, arrhythmic, and as inscrutable as the hidden dimensions that inspired...
...specific musical notation instructed the vocalists whether to sing with a breathy or pressed voice, falsetto or fry voice, and how to position their jaws. These guidelines produce unfamiliar timbres of the human voice, which Parra then paired with unintelligible bits of sound, mostly strangled syllables and throaty gurgles that were at once alienating and captivating...
...Gate,” they were dropped by their Sub Pop label, but found a home with Jack Johnson’s Brushfire Records. That album found them moving in a new direction, embracing a more highly produced aesthetic that used studio effects to create a spacey and dreamy sound...
...rest of the album’s first half is driven more by electronic beats, heavy rhythms, and layered vocal harmonies, however, giving Side A its catchy and occasionally danceable sound. On “Good Morning (The Future),” Rogue states, “The future / isn’t what it used to be / I’m not surprised.” With this, he seems to sum up the band’s current direction: a perhaps-not-unexpected move from an intimate sound into more electronic...
...sometimes sings with an oddly affected British accent, particularly on the otherwise appealing “Stars and Stripes.” Though that song is capable of overcoming Rogue’s misstep, on “You Have Boarded,” his vocals make the song sound like a poor Franz Ferdinand B-side...