Word: upbeat
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...What They Will Find” was released in the U.S. on Nov. 15. They’re all original songs except for one, which is a cover of the Montel Bass song “Rescue Me.” It’s an upbeat, Motown kind of song, so we did a slower, more sultry jazz version. A couple of the tracks are from the first album I recorded that was an independently released album. I was 16 when I made it so we wanted to go back and revisit some of those songs, especially because...
SJE’s final piece, “Manteca,” began with an interesting, introduction by THUD. SJE crept into the piece slowly, instrument by instrument, and the performance then rather suddenly crescendoed and swung into an upbeat, rhythmically fast-paced piece. The unexpected upswing thrillingly caught audiences off guard. After this performance was met with wild applause, there was a brief intermission to allow THUD...
Indeed, after the upbeat jazz of SJE, it seemed almost unfair that THUD served as dessert, since the musical appreciation required for the less mainstream THUD is so different...
...sprinkled with hi-fi distortions of tape-recorded voices, instruments, and film clips—without leaving the confines of Hexagon Sun, their commune/recording studio/abandoned nuclear bunker in rural Scotland. The group’s new release, “The Campfire Headphase,” is upbeat, light, and at times blissful; a striking departure from their eerie sophomore album, “Geogaddi.” Throbbing electronic melodies, airy guitar chords, fragments of conversation, and frosty hip-hop beats layer effortlessly over and under the hazy ambient textures for which BoC is famous. Tracks like...
...left the company shortly after the runway show, the models began streaming out. The crowd became visibly excited when certain pieces emerged, such as the signature dress with flower petals on the straps. But for the most part they behaved politely, only murmuring to friends behind cupped palms. An upbeat techno playlist, which Remele later reprised at his trunk show, obscured their infrequent chatter. Most of the women in the audience were dressed as formally as the models, and although some came in jeans, nearly as many sported fur stoles and large pearls...