But it was as close to perfect as a melodic punk EP could get: lean, melodic, restless.
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We really like the more melodic stuff, that's why we are getting into Techno these days because I think it's getting a lot more melodic than it used to be.
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The little passages that swell and swirl without much melodic movement (like the one that opens the drawling ballad "Muutuja") contain as much textural character as any of the grand melodic moments.
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"Well of Despair" is primarily a cold blast of icy, melodic black metal fury; those beloved thrash and melodic death metal influences are still there, of course, and there's plenty of shredding.
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It's another example of Petty's excellent storytelling and melodic genius.
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It's this really slow, monotonous and limited melodic range music.
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And finally, "Daylight" is a chilled out, melodic techno journey.
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She has a soft, tinkling, melodic voice — sweet and pure.
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I wanted the vocals to be more melodic and harmonious.
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I love Nirvana, and Eminem — especially the more melodic stuff.
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With overlapping melodic strands, four characters express differently bewildered reactions.
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This is really melodic, how can you not like this?
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So you like Indonesian horror movies and melodic baritone punk?
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His melodic lines soared above a sea of dreamy romanticism.
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A diffuse, melodic fog of birdsong hung over the scene.
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I didn't intend for it to be so markedly melodic.
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Colors, contrast, mood, dynamics, melodic and harmonic contradictions and interactions.
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Melodic undertones began to build on top of the synth beat.
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There's definitely a nostalgic patina which overlays this group's melodic bent.
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It's thrash, although it showcases the band's more anthemic, melodic side.
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We loved crazy, loud, punk music and vulnerable, pretty, melodic music.
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Her yelled enthusiasm often substitutes colloquial declamation for conventionally melodic singing.
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Sway gently to the dulcet tones of the comforting melodic techno.
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I wanted it more melodic—a mellow sound to the ears.
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Its voice is melodic, it rarely stumbles, and it's unnaturally efficient.
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Does Nigeria's melodic, punctuated English make you weak in the knees?
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This record seems a bit more melodic and layered than Australasia.
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We could've just released a single with a more melodic direction.
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A faint, melodic call to prayer came from outside the gate.
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But these flecks become insistent rhythmic riffs and quasi-melodic patterns.
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These songs wander, disinclined to repeat, melodic but not exactly catchy.
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Downstairs, there is the clinking of glasses and hushed, melodic Italian.
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The spirit woos me in a melodic Welsh voice, urging me.
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A melodic hook that you LOVE but don't really know why!
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All that, plus a generous dose of the early melodic style.
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His voice, burnished but slightly nasal, complemented his melodic harmonica playing.
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YouTuber Pupsi is covering Smash Mouth with some surprisingly melodic melons.
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Fragments of phrases attempt to coalesce into melodic lines but dissipate.
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Was it an avalanche punctuated by melodic interludes, or vice versa?
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There was no melodic progression or coherent structure to the sound.
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The melodic movement is much slower due to the lack of words.
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They were holding hands, kissing, and swaying along to Sheeran's melodic stylings.
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It was avant-garde yet still melodic, exhilaratingly expressive but never chaotic.
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It's Deafheaven's most melodic, most accessible, and occasionally most sentimental album yet.
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It's a twisting, melodic project that feels stitched together with scotch tape.
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Automata weaves between ethereal movements, tight melodic rocking, and head-banging abandon.
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Krasner's dark and poetic lyrics converse with hardware glitches and melodic synths.
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They are the epitome of melodic, beautiful melodies, and hard as fuck.
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They do not have flashy feathers, make melodic sounds, or poison you.
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Who can forget Vangelis's theme song of pulsing synthesizer and melodic piano?
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Gucci's trademark is his flow: buoyant and melodic, with light comedic flourishes.
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" The first single off the album is a melodic track called "Maria.
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There's an extreme intensity both in noise-tangential throb and melodic arrangement.
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There's not a lot of melodic movement, but the mood is evocative.
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It's just so unashamedly melodic, but it's beautifully simplistic rather than trite.
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Have a melodic week, and enjoy that extra hour of sunlight today.
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But the music is carried by lyrical, melodic stretches in the violins.
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Instrumental lines emerge from atmospheric murmurs, trying to coalesce into melodic fragments.
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He provides masterful, melodic counterpoint in the open spots in the chorus.
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It's Nine Inch Nails at its least melodic and most balefully efficient.
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There were recognizable bits of melodic, emotive post-hardcore here and there.
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Its original pieces range from tangled melodic webs to coolly meditative exhalations.
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His honeyed lilt sweetens dancehall macho with gentle affection and melodic cheer.
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Undertale's sonic unity is a pleasure; so too is its melodic immediacy.
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The album demands your attention with its unpredictable compositions and melodic turns.
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Where its long melodic lines maintained tension, the performers arched with romantic vagueness.
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Featuring a catchy chorus and a melodic tone, Tanika has something really special.
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The neural net then looks for melodic and rhythmic patterns it can identify.
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Some songs clearly have landmarks, in agreed-upon melodic themes and tonal centers.
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His flute playing was gracefully melodic and inspired me to learn to play.
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She just whispers in a melodic voice and makes seemingly random hand movements.
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The instrumentation was proggy but not stale, melodic without ever being overtly poppy.
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Coming from New Orleans and having bounce music, all the artists are melodic.
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I think Techno is a lot more melodic and emotional than people realise.
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We all share a similar melodic interest, so that helps with the writing.
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Ghostly, contemplative melodic breaks elevate second track "Astray" into a full-on odyssey.
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Rosemary's music, at first, combines melodic coloratura madness with cosmic undercurrents of rock.
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Rachmaninoff's darkly colored, richly melodic "Symphonic Dances," his final composition, concluded the program.
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We got the same type of style: the melodic, we go all day.
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Before sometimes we'd say, "Oh, that's too melodic" and we wouldn't do it.
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Our 2011 record, Infrastructure, was really melodic, and 2012's Confluence was darker.
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Listening Matter is clearer and more melodic, but hints of nature seep in.
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In the middle section, the melodic line goes through twists and generates agitation.
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Friedman's score emerged — sweeping, strongly melodic, more focused than his usual pastiche style.
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His music became progressively more melodic, though it never stopped being deeply idiosyncratic.
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It makes soothing melodic sounds, which are a major component of Chinese classical music.
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They also claim the two songs utilize similar overall structures, melodic rhythms and harmonies.
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It's not like melodic or catchy or... it's not pretty it's very ugly sounding.
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Mr. Bley's style of playing was melodic, measured, bluesy, often polytonal and seemingly effortless.
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Her laugh is pitched high and melodic, like a singing bird, like her father's.
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It's poppy and melodic, but it retains a sharp enough edge lyrically and emotionally.
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Cavdir played a solo, stretching the cable of the GameTrak in melodic, emotional gestures.
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It's so melodic, like especially when you think of UGK and Pimp C's production.
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The melodic progression of "HoursDaysMonthsSeasons" initially follows a circular logic, suggestive of stationary melancholy.
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The roads of the UK are probably about to become a lot more melodic.
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However Faiyaz's melodic choices, use of instruments, and storytelling allow him his own merits.
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With the melodic piano and cleverly reworked hook—at its core, it's Bruce Hornsby.
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And Delibes's score, a marvel of melodic variety, makes theatrical magic from instrumental colors.
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The local pastor, Daniel Auta, said Leah had a beautiful voice, soft and melodic.
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It's a melodic slalom, and hard going if you're not a native Portuguese speaker.
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He liked a lot more of the melodic stuff that was happening back then.
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Their arrangements and melodic sensibilities are ebullient, malleable, and match Chance's adventurous musical moods.
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What was it like to release an album so brazenly melodic into that scene?
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One is much harsher and darker, while the other is more gentle and melodic.
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It was a rare moment where we went for something mid tempo and melodic.
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If you look at all his films, his scenes, they have strong melodic content.
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In the end, the ESPN clip captured most of the song's grand, melodic moments.
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Occasionally, especially in the scenes involving Ms. Pak's Shadow, a sweet melodic serenity prevails.
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In order to get to those melodies...they're not always the most melodic ones.
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So, although both songs use the same melodic sample, no one is copying anyone.
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Dvorak's score is endlessly melodic, with aria after aria, both long and short ones.
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Lyrical fragments try to coalesce into a melodic line, but keep you off guard.
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He is followed by the chart-topping melodic rapper Post Malone at 7:45.
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Lewis's melodic grace and lyrical precision mesmerize, but she's suffered through these dramas before.
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Now there's "Far From Home," the most melodic, mournful track we've had from him yet.
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"Biutiful" begins with a heavily granulized melodic keyboard line that plays like a decomposed memory.
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Received melodic conventions make one song blur into the next without bothering to differentiate itself.
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While melodic hardcore had its own set of standards, Kid Dynamite felt outside of it.
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The pan flutes, choral pads and melodic percussion intentionally evoke rain forests and the ocean.
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Clams's beat is sweet and melodic, drops of synths and a casual breakbeat stretching out.
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It was raining outside and within three hours this really cool melodic piece came together.
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Sands is skilled, soulful and melodic throughout, his energy and spirit altering with each tune.
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The song is so melodic and catchy that it's alarmingly easy to unconsciously sing along.
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When you imagine syrup musically now, you hear a type of woozy, melodic howling: i.e.
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And I was like, 'I will never listen to Swedish melodic death metal ever again.
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Tierra's greatest talent is her ability to make melodic songs from topics that feel arbitrary.
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Her voice was lulling, soft, melodic, even when she was spitting out hard-edged bars.
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And I just thought that would be [starts imitating a melodic police siren] or whatever.
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In the first movement, a long, wayward melodic line unfolds slowly, each phrase elaborately embellished.
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But his choreography, like the melodic, unobtrusive score, is barely noticeable on its own terms.
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The bassoon and oboe played soft wailing tones, then segued into plaintive, twisting melodic lines.
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Early on, Lil Uzi Vert and Tyler, the Creator delivered sets full of melodic petulance.
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Wu adopts Scott's signature style, which is melodic, sleazy, and heavily reliant on Auto-Tune.
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"The quite simple melodic contour might help the brain to recall these things," said Jakubowski.
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That device was designed to phase 12 separate oscillator pulses, creating gradually shifting melodic patterns.
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Even so, breaking up with melodic death metal was a pivotal turning point for me.
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All of that is packaged with Irene Barber's confident vocals as a steady melodic center.
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Luccas Carlos sings over the melodic trap beats his label Pirâmide Perdida is known for.
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The recently-released album is full of wavering, texturally rich sounds and faltering melodic vocals.
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Would you say it's one of the more poppy and melodic songs you have written?
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"His melodic and harmonic practices were from a Western point of view," Mr. Botstein said.
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Here they will take part in a mostly improvised performance, built around small melodic sketches.
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Murray stressed the importance of melodic ideas, expressiveness and musicality over ostentatious displays of technique.
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He was loved for his melodic hard rock, nasally vocals and down-to-earth style.
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The group will likely play some of Williams's pithy, melodic originals featured on that album.
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Their starkness, too, heightens the alien familiarity; there's nothing catchier than an isolated melodic nugget.
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What the researchers found was that earwormy songs are generally faster than non-earworms, had "unusual" intervals (unexpected leaps or more repeated notes than usual), and followed "global melodic contours," which means that they have melodic shapes that are commonly found in Western pop music.
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The way the melodic parts intersect like is playfully repetitive—sort of like watching a perfect .
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I seem to remember it had some good songs and some nice little melodic instrumental interludes.
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The band ripped through a half hour of melodic heavy metal licks offset by gruff singing.
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Quavo in particular seems to really love putting his own spin on Joe Gifted's melodic flow.
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Fields: There was a confluence of melodic and lyrical talent and a wanting to be different.
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The second movement, marked "lugubrious and sad," is thick with ruminative melodic lines and heaving harmonies.
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In reality, this portion of the song serves more purpose than holding up the melodic structure.
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Specifically, researchers compared "unmelodic" alarms, or ones that beep, to "melodic" ones, such as pop songs.
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Even the way that Black preachers present their sermons has a singing, melodic mode to it.
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Melkbelly's songs jump from frenetic, fuzzy rock ("Off the Lot") to slightly more melodic tracks ("Cawthra").
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"One thing that stands out about 'Despacito' is that 'Despacito' opens on melodic movement," Harding says.
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Nor does it have the sort of melodic tunes many casual listeners might expect in opera.
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My best friend Duece who died, who showed me how to rap, he was already melodic.
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But it's her melodic delivery, which often gets compared to Dej Loaf, that sets her apart.
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I could watch Zachary Cole Smith and Andrew Bailey lay those melodic lines down for hours.
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"Congratulations on learning Debussy's Clair de Lune," July intoned, her voice at once steady and melodic.
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He added some extra sound designs, the very metallic synths and the melodic drone/pad lines.
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The record's Sango-produced first single, "Spread Love," was one of his most soulful and melodic.
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There's a lot of contrast of really melodic music and more deconstructed, dark, angular music too.
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The album co-mingles melodic bass patterns with deep vocals and a dreary atmosphere of synths.
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Their new record, Oneiric, doubles down on that concept, both heavier and more melodic than before.
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It is Guns N' Roses without the Hollywood glam, Black Sabbath but more melodic and soulful.
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Comic and celebratory, melodic and mournful, it's an elegy for a place that's not dead yet.
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More often than not, she has the melodic sense and vocal authority to pull it off.
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Her cheeky and charming of rap over melodic and summery electro beats has gained international attention.
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Just when you grow accustomed to a blissful melodic phrase, she's moved onto something totally different.
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It's a solid melodic rock record with striking lyrics fixated on regret, light, and moving on.
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Trippie's May album A Love Letter to You is a sleeper standout at rap's melodic forefront.
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Together they rise to a kind of driving, repetitive mélange that seems both atonal and melodic.
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We have only a melodic line to judge by, but it radiates a kind of ecstasy.
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He described the instrument as "a melodic percussion heartbeat" of both the orchestra and the city.
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They end as high-contrast splays of sound, ranging from melodic solo statements to coordinated wallops.
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Vaddey Ratner calls each of the three parts of her tenaciously melodic second novel a movement.
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Deadmau5 built a wildly successful career with melodic, crowd-pleasing house music; Testpilot prefers sleek techno.
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When it comes to harmonic daring and subtle manipulations of melodic motifs, Cilea was no Puccini.
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There's something that brings it together with contemporary classical and experimental music, but it's also melodic.
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This project from Swedish multi-instrumentalist Dagny Susanne (and drummer Martrum) churns out grandiose, 90s-inflected melodic black metal like it's nothing, and I'm particular enamored of Susanne's vocals—her voice rumbles out ragged, gruff, and fierce in demonic contrast to the music's more polished melodic core.
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It is quite lacking in dramatic expressiveness, in characterization, in melodic ideas, in distinction of any kind.
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Melodic, groovy, and oozing with charisma, Secondsight play an introspective style of hardcore akin to Turning Point.
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Mr Simon's later output has been interesting, but rarely as melodic as his work with Mr Garfunkel.
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Rich, melodic production that's confidently sparse when it needs to be and goes widescreen when called for.
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BF: Yeah, Brian provides such an interesting soundscape that goes from tonal to melodic in American Gods.
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Nearby, there are dark guitars with string-plucking mechanisms; when activated, they emit a droning, melodic din.
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Under a wash of reverb, Boettger's layers hypnotic melodic sequences and swaggering beats with alluring guitar work.
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It's richly melodic, and her resistance to overloading the production means those melodies have room to shine.
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BTW, Kanye didn't sing -- he led his choir in a melodic rendition of the Stevie Wonder version.
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It's full of big, beautiful synth washes cut through with melodic raps and harder-edged bars alike.
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He has, however, released an LP under the name Pryda, which he uses for melodic house recordings.
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"Having a soothing voice talk to you in a rhythmic, melodic fashion is very comforting," he said.
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It's one of the most lovely and melodic tongues in the pantheon of fake languages, after all.
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"Sorry Ur Mad" is a push-pull with Tony's melodic bass at the eye of the storm.
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For more serious melodic investigations of the White House, though, there are actually a handful of options.
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Swae Lee works his usual melodic magic but there's just no getting away from that grating hook.
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Underwater melodic tones and percussive samples are brought fantastically to the fore when you listen on headphones.
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But culturally we grew up with a lot of the same reference points of melodic guitar music.
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Cubeatz excel at helping rappers fulfill their pop potential by lacing their beats with spectral melodic updrafts.
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But not a melodic, soothing flute—more like a demonic tortured flautist is trapped under the ice.
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Jones gives the original some twitchy energy with fidgety drums, an impatient melodic refrain, and optimistic bells.
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The writing came very naturally out of the mood of the track for me; Melodic, hypnotic, meditative.
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As heavy as this record is, it's arguably the most melodic release that Ghostlimb has put out.
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The band lays down shocks of intensely abrasive screamo that flare out from a more melodic base.
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Then post-hardcore was taking that same heaviness and incorporating all these beautiful, melodic sounds and vocals.
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The Last Panthers is pretty melodic, are you into any scores that are more sound-design focused?
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"I think I was always singing and dancing for somebody," he said, in a light, melodic voice.
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The music abounds in swaying riffs, bare melodic ideas, dramatic glissandos and stretches of perky, twanging energy.
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Doing nothing that felt exaggerated or overwrought, Ms. Wang emphasized unsettled harmonies and de-emphasized melodic integrity.
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He wrote and performed melodic ditties in a variety of subgenres, with lyrics full of provocative wordplay.
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The melodic tones of an acoustic version of Josh Groban's "You Raise Me Up" filled the cabin.
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They are virtuoso composers; they are melodic composers; they are fascinating in their harmonies and their orchestration.
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By the end, the track evens out into a melodic guitar riff, and all is well again.
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It's heavy, of course, but heavy in the way that Samothrace or Khemmis are heavy—they aim for a certain level of melodic finesse, and work to keep things from getting too grim with smart little melodic flourishes (the guitar work on At This Great Depth is jaw-dropping).
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"Generate," the closing track from Restitution, is more aggressive techno, with abrasive synthetic drums and spindly, melodic instrumentation.
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It sounds simultaneously like hardstyle and cybernetic modular synth music, combining soaring melodic gestures with nimble sound design.
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They can be psychological and internal and atonal, as well as melodic and beautiful, as the situation requires.
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As documented by The Fader, Bey has a storied history of delivering melodic bars smoother than most MCs.
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I guess I was wondering what pushes you to include such a deep melodic dimension to your tracks?
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The chords are more melodic and beautiful, as opposed to like more harsh types of chords or beats.
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And he promises to renounce formalism and "unhealthy individualism," and instead write melodic music for the Soviet people.
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Spitting over classic American hip-hop beats, it demonstrated a different side to Skrapz: one more melodic, contemplative.
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She goes from melodic to celebratory to fully amped quite regularly and she's equally effective at each approach.
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He wrote to it, but I was expecting him to sing out and be a little more melodic.
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Fago's "Confitebor" and "Tam non splendet" unfold like miniature operas, with vivid melodic writing and propulsive dance rhythms.
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Comic and celebratory, melodic and mournful, it's an elegy for a place that's not dead yet (1:30).
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I was listening to a lot of melodic stuff, and really wanted to get better at writing hooks.
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"I think Animal Collective is very human in one sense—with the melodic elements and emotions," he reflects.
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"It's a little melodic, a little more not so poppy," the singer teased in an interview with E!
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Maybe there are some similarities in the melodic work or the overall atmosphere, but otherwise I don't know.
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Still, you can hear hints of the melodic sweetness that marks Mr. Menken's music throughout this early show.
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Soak in the peaceful, melodic, artistic brilliance that Bob Ross instead of the hellscape that is American politics.
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Sondheim's work here is broad, buoyant and melodic, with only tantalizing traces of the complex artist to come.
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Often, as characters sing, threads of darting melodic lines run through the orchestra embedded within dense, chromatic harmonies.
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But Mr. Pollini sensitively drew out the plaintive melodic lines that penetrate the tangles of passagework and counterpoint.
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Then came "Tinsel Loop," an 18-note melodic expression based on "Tinsel," a 2002 composition by Mr. Marclay.
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Excellent sets by the young rappers Polo G, Lil Tjay and Calboy included standout melodic songs about tragedy.
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On October 16 -- the day Kylie posted her melodic voice -- #RiseandShine hit 4 million views in one day.
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PWR BTTM, the melodic and theatrical punk duo of Liv Bruce and Ben Hopkins, are masters of presentation.
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Ms. Baum, a flutist, has just released "Bridges," a fine album of ambitious range and sharp melodic clarity.
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The birds' phrasings are both melodic and mechanical, cyclical and spontaneous, like the wordless vocables of scat singers.
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The interesting thing about him as a composer is that he has a distinct harmonic and melodic vocabulary.
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Prince's haunting melody, cutting lyrics and O'Connor's melodic, powerful voice made "Nothing Compares 2 U" an incomparable success.
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Much of his music drew on R&B, old and new, but his melodic gift extended across genres.
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As expected, Mr. Manze restrained string vibrato and allowed ample melodic ornamentation, even when it proved mildly disruptive.
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The mandolin is actually tuned the same way as a violin; they're both tuned to be melodic instruments.
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KROY takes on a surprisingly expansive tone live, swelling in huge melodic synth crashes and lingering on basslines.
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However, these stripped-down and decontextualized versions remove the comforts of childhood nostalgia while leaving melodic comfort intact.
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They rarely have a song under ten minutes but they're all beautiful, super textured, melodic, and beat-heavy.
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The video quickly went viral, with many impressed by Mayer's deft skills and the melodic structure of the tune.
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Or Ckrono and Slesh's "Serere," electrobeats to birdy sounds to xyly sounds and yes that is a melodic hook.
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But what made Lifetime stand out from any other hardcore or punk band with melodic hooks and passionate lyrics?
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There's a melodic component here, too, but good luck finding it beneath the laywers of grime and spilled blood.
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De Poot is also a musician and producer, creating melodic yet club-friendly compositions under the artist name Sokoto.
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His voice isn't particularly melodic; he's Lincoln-lanky; he lacks the preacher's cadence that marked former president Obama's speeches.
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It grew strangely melodic and just as meditative as the preceding films, echoing from somewhere within the room's center.
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If you listen to Future, A$AP Ferg, all the people that have melodic elements, that comes from Juvenile.
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This is all complimented by Koze's take on Le Tough's original; a churning blend of melodic bells and whistles.
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I create the melodic structure of the song by creating the skeletal base of the harmonies on the piano.
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"Outside" is the most melodic song on the record while still having that darker, harder sound running through it.
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Usually drum breaks and some other melodic element, and I would write the song on top of that foundation.
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Enter Brooklyn's Big Eyes, whose latest album, Stake My Claim, merges elements of melodic punk with a garage sensibility.
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Above all, these aren't empty surfaces, as the songs take melodic and textural turns that give them real heart.
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Clear Shot likes to baffle the listener by using novel recording techniques to produce some truly otherworldly melodic sounds.
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Controversies aside, Pressa's music is firmly of its time, his distinct voice a melodic squeal atop rickety trap instrumentation.
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You've got band's omnipresent melodic nod to the 80s, and vocals that are at once commanding, wavering and sensitive.
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"I would always hear melodic inventiveness and lyricism," Mr. Brubeck said of Mr. Smith's playing in a phone interview.
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He was resolutely exploring other elements: drones influenced by North African and Indian music; unbounded and jagged melodic phrasing.
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In the first movement, the piano purveyed rippling arpeggios, a Glassian trademark, while the strings worked through melodic figures.
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But the soundtrack (mostly performed by a cast that doubles as its own orchestra and chorus) isn't only melodic.
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Finally, the whole orchestra joined in, playing sputtering rhythms, tart harmonies and thematic fragments that coalesced into melodic lines.
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Ms. Branch now lives in Brooklyn, but the record bears the pulpy, melodic sound print of her former home.
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Some operas are faulted for scores that lack melodic richness, relying too much on long stretches of dramatic recitative.
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By contrast, "The Life of Pablo" takes a turn to the ornate, the melodic and also the emotionally intimate.
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And then under your own name make something a little more melodic that people might want to listen to.
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By giving most of the characters instrumental palettes instead of strict melodic motifs, their songs can be more transient.
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Like many indie-rock acts, this Brooklyn-based band has drawn inspiration from the melodic seductions of Serge Gainsbourg.
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Barr (favorite band: Iron Maiden; favorite genre: melodic death metal) started with the lyrics of 222,623 songs from 22,314 albums.
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We created a light, gentle and humorous melodic soundtrack, using mainly celesta, harp, vocoder, bass guitars and clarinets and drums.
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Hus' melodic yet rap-heavy vision bleeds through each of these freestyle videos, staring the viewer straight in the face.
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In the Facebook video above, Seymore Harrison Jr and his daughter Charity sing a gloriously melodic Girl Scout cookie pitch.
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It's a perfect example of his melodic prowess and storytelling ability that really paints the auditory picture for an audience.
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Spanning nearly 24 minutes, it's one sinewy, melodic stretch of twinkling pop and R&B through a kaleidoscopic club lens.
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There are quieter moments, too: In "Moonmoons," a graceful, melodic cello line soars over cooing owl sounds and plucked strings.
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There were traits I could recognize: a neatly tied bun of black hair, a melodic voice, an expressive, tilting head.
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The grand mixture that is Cuban music — its intricate grooves, melodic inflections, arrays of drums — began flowing into her compositions.
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But bills banning bills that ban bags, melodic as they are, don't exactly motivate a search for environmentally-friendlier solutions.
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The end result is a fiercely melodic neckbreaker of an album, which features vocals from former guitarist/vocalist Jordan Olivera.
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By twisting the control knob to switch instruments, you can plunk out a slinky bass line or melodic chord sequence.
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He was in a band in the 80's called the Wigglies that made this beautiful arty angular melodic music.
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Through the use of treatments that include melodic intonation therapy, music helped retrain her brain's pathways to access language again.
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But these weren't the melodic punk hooks they had made a name for themselves on during their tenure in Fireworks.
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This one seemed to include all facets of Pelican; your melodic side, your heavier side, there's even an acoustic side.
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It's a certain vibe I'm trying to get over with people: the melodic and beautiful music that's still street oriented.
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Layers of Subcultures vocal tics and trills – percussive breaths, melodic coos – form the bed upon which Tinyman's signature flow rides.
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You hear it on the opening track, "Medicine Man," which works a childlike melodic line into something like an expedition.
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But a man sat at a table in one, singing Koranic verses, his melodic voice echoing softly through the souk.
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Over two loud but melodic guitars, vocalist and bassist Nic Warnock sings about feelings and emotions, and crying on shoulders.
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In a way, the melodic yet distorted posture of this track represents that opulence and distorted reality amongst the elite.
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It's about the texture of the harmonies, the rhythms, the quotations, the Stravinskian drive, the klezmer and Jewish melodic style.
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Their records also absorbed the musical cultures of Asia, Europe, and the US to create experimental and melodic pop music.
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This is more than a little helpful, as the language Kate DiCamillo's tiny heroine employs is minimal, though highly melodic.
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He described the tracks as calming with melodic strings (Moskow plays a sarod, an Indian instrument similar to a sitar).
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He was steeped in the soft piano intros and top-of-the-lungs crescendos of the contemporary Italian melodic tradition.
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"Nicholas Meyers's music is Kurt Weill acrid without being Kurt Weill melodic," Walter Kerr wrote in The New York Times.
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Today's puzzle is a melodic collaboration between the singer, songwriter and philanthropist Lisa Loeb and the crossword constructor Doug Peterson.
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Ms. Wasner's voice and melodic sense, along with her perpetual self-examination, have always been the core of Wye Oak.
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J.C. The guitarist Peter Bernstein has a sharp articulation, a tersely melodic way of phrasing and a devilish compositional style.
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Vaughan improvised extravagantly melodic lines; she heard all the harmonic choices in a chord and breezed through them at will.
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"And as strange as it is, I'm okay with this," he says, swapping melodic flows for a more robust delivery.
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Listen: The track "Gun Powder" provides more cheerily melodic tragedy from the Savannah, Ga., rapper Quando Rondo, Jon Caramanica writes.
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There's no trademark melodic turn or show-stopping rhythmic gesture; instead, the track conveys an intimate sense of ongoing negotiation.
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I also think his last solo album is one of his best—hook for hook he's at his most melodic.
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"Another Medium" twitches around, dodging melodic resolution as high keyboard arpeggios waver in reaction to the chord progression's nervous shift.
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There's a huge melodic component here as well; they deftly embody the "post-black metal" sound but aren't nerds about it.
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Dr. John An important part of the melodic gumbo that is New Orleans' music scene is the magic of Dr. John.
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For those unfamiliar with the trill, it's a technique that early composers used due to its rhythmic, melodic, and harmonic properties.
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The overall sound of the album bears my touch, Pete accentuated the harshness of it and Vampillia brought the melodic aspect.
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One such claim revolves around the notion that its melodic beats appeal to women in a way that other genres can't.
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Los Angeles born-and-bred producer Karman today shared a pensive new mix saturated with with soaring, romantically-attuned melodic arrangements.
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Sung in Hewitt's (who also plays in Gold Class) deep baritone, the song is backed by unhurried but melodic indie rock .
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So, naturally, I can't trust the whims of a broadband network to send invisible streams of melodic data to my phone.
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The standout is the tape's closer, "Bizness," featuring Columbus, Ohio's Rarri, a track that edges to a heavily synthy, melodic finale.
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The biggest leap for Goes Cube is the added emphasis on melodic vocals, more so than any of their other releases.
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Compared to other genres of music, Christmas music and pop tend to have very predictable melodic structures, according to Dr. Rabinovitz.
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Closing track "Unbroken" is textured, aggressive, and fast, with a hefty melodic midsection—textbook stadium crust, executed faithfully and will passion.
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The "filler" words are where each auctioneer puts his or her own signature on the chant and creates its melodic nature.
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Lee's piri moans like a heartbroken loon, while the deep, bold-voiced geomungo acts as both a melodic and percussive instrument.
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Some kind of variation on grime or jungle would be exciting, to add melodic ideas and sound design to that world.
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Björk's quasi-ASMR obsession is just one part of her vocal science, the other is what's woven into her melodic sensibilities.
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" It fit seamlessly onto a record that featured the industrially sludgy Migos collaboration "???" and the loose melodic trap-rock of "Juice.
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Their sullen metalcore breaks so hard but remains so melodic that they're generally regarded as one of the most diverse headbangers.
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Pitching one thing, both of us singing melodic ideas at each other, picking our favorites, building things out, arguing about lyrics.
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He is perhaps best known for his song "Better Change Your Mind," which is characteristic of his synth-rich, melodic sound.
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Then in 2010, they released the more pop-oriented The Winter of Mixed Drinks, a showcase for the band's melodic tendencies.
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"A World Unseen" gives us an elegant welcome to the party, its snaking melodic riffs playing off an icy Amesoeurs vibe.
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David Lebleu's driving, complex, groove based drum patterns were hypnotic, and perfectly underscored by Sander Travisano's full, round, melodic bass lines.
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Steller's jays can actually do a spot-on impression of a red-tailed hawk, which, while not melodic, is an improvement.
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She improvised along with the singers in church, and she taught herself to hear musical architecture and to invent melodic lines.
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It's a murky, melodic rap record from a newcomer, whose only previous release (2015's Glory) now feels like a prelude.
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Almost every song on Channel Orange contains at least one breathtaking moment: unearthly falsettos, pained shrieks, impassioned belting, unexpected melodic flourishes.
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In his melodic voice, he spoke of how the oppressed should gain strength from God and one another, according to worshipers.
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Dense chords murmur restlessly, as wavering melodic lines escape from sustained, quivering sonorities and spin off, sometimes disappearing into an ether.
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" As it unfolds, the sections become more melodic; mini-lyrical phrases charmingly juxtapose "our love of music" with "our favorite sandwich.
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Shelley's high, melodic voice was light years away from the acidity of Lydon or the rasp of the Clash's Joe Strummer.
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Hell, go back to Cleaver's work with Ass Ponys and you'll find its embryo whittled out of that sweet, melodic Americana.
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Its electronic music repeats key phrases with an insistence that makes you long for the jolly melodic variety of Philip Glass.
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The Colombian team likes to play the racy, rousing rhythms of salsa; Uruguay's fans are blasting melodic yet swaggering rock music.
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They had punk-rock songs, and reggae songs, and melodic songs, and they just followed what they wanted to make, right?
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Birdspotting appears to be a whole game built around those moments, accompanied by soothing low-fi graphics and a melodic score.
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Written for Ms. Mutter, she played this effusively melodic music with a sweet, sometimes tremulous tone that felt unaffected and personal.
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The brand's use of melodic, non-threatening electronic music here recalls Gap's infamous use of Daft Punk's "Digital Love" in 2001.
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That is, until everything changes and the bass breaks free of its established pattern, twisting from its otherwise restrained melodic profile.
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"Bird language": Long before cellphones existed, Turkish farmers communicated with one another using whistles of varied-pitch frequencies and melodic lines.
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Well, they can start by getting into one of the best melodic power metal bands ever to rock the Earth: Nightwish.
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And the strings brought a sneaky sense of unease to the haunting melodic line that reappears throughout the work's final minutes.
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His attractive melodic fragments were difficult to hold in mind, since a listener's attention was constantly drawn to some competing figure.
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Based in New York since the mid-2000s, this Italian pianist writes and plays with a keen sense of melodic counterintuition.
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At first, reflective passages full of poignant melodic turns and blues-tinged, plushly orchestrated harmonies alternate with vibrantly jazzy, fidgety episodes.
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During the balcony scene duet ("O nuit divine"), they shifted subtly between passages of tremulous romantic abandon and affecting melodic intimacy.
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The sounds Ms. Auster played alternated between droning and tinkling; though not melodic like music, they were pleasant to listen to.
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Jessica had pale-green eyes, a melodic voice, and blond hair that hung down her back like a slab of wood.
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An instrument of subtle melodic grace and brutal rhythmic power, his voice breeds metaphors as much as it delivers unmistakable sounds.
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Most noisy post-punk the singer is just talking and then the melodic, aggressive stuff ends up sounding like Foo Fighters.
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After recording his musicians improvising, the producer listened to the takes and discovered bits of melodic lines that intersected in interesting ways.
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Thrash, surf, hardcore, melodic, funk, and even dub-dance rhythms all coalesced under the moniker and compilation albums released by the magazine.
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Standing proud, reaching up towards the heavens, he began to wave to and fro over the melodic strains of 'Super Alan Pardew'.
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Nonetheless, Rockmore's ability to create beautifully melodic sounds with the instrument put her amongst the most prestigious classical musicians of the time.
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It combined heartfelt, melodic songs, such as "Tahoultine" (which explored the perils of beauty), and frenetic guitar work, evident on "Issuahid Elwanme".
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Known in Turkish as the "ezan," this intricate, melodic recitation is a quintessential marker of daily life, inviting the devout to pray.
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Rather than standing in for Western instuments, the traditional instruments are allowed to determine the direction and melodic possibilities of the music.
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The melodic bounce track linked with PND's more abstract flow is another certified track that you need to add to your playlist.
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The verses are soft and melodic but the bridge becomes harsh and discordant, inserting feelings of confusion and fear into the film.
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This melodic contour is also found in the Maroon 5 song 'Moves Like Jagger,' the fifth most cited earworm in the study.
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Pedestrian Verse contained some of the band's best-rounded tracks to that point, melodic when it felt right, but still unquestionably theirs.
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My thoughts exactly, though tonight's more melodic tune exposed an iffy vocal we don't usually hear on Avalon's more conversational song choices.
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Nowadays, the prim electronic music most Americans encounter in everyday life is a gentle, melodic echo of its former roid-rage excess.
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I wholeheartedly admire Inexorum's commitment to that classic 90s melodic black metal sound, complete with frosty atmosphere, emotional fervency, and nature worship.
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That 180 in melodic mode is why "Green Light" feels disjointed, as though someone grafted two unrelated songs together in Pro Tools.
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I was like, bro like —' because my favorite song from him was 'Love No Thot,' which is real like melodic, dancehall records.
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The four central characters—Marnie, Mark, Terry, and Marnie's mother—are beautifully differentiated, with melodic contours and instrumental timbres tailored for each.
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The music—which is heavy, with melodic, pop undertones—rides the tension of being fierce and expansive while paradoxically insular and uneasy.
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In the laid back, melodic track Ty makes the case for having his world rocked in a way it's never been before.
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Mixing early Detroit influences, electro, and a few occasional nods to acid, it's unapologetically melodic, without losing sight of the dance floor.
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This week on Noisey Radio, Watts' rising melodic rapper 03 Greedo stops by for an exclusive interview and drops a world premiere.
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Fans have impassioned disagreements on which album is its most fertile, and therefore responsible for spawning the most influence on melodic hardcore.
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Everyone had a different take on the hardcore-derived sound, which existed somewhere in the spectrum of outright heavy to quietly melodic.
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Snap gave way to minimal, melodic Southern gangster music that still dictates the dominant sound in rap as a whole these days.
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For the last 20 years, Beth Orton has been making album after album of wonderfully sublime, carefully crafted and melodic folk music.
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It can be melodic, singing about something like romance; it can seethe with frustration; it can switch to jagged, stop-start dissonances.
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His melodic banjo work on a 1973 hit single (heard in the movie "Deliverance") helped usher bluegrass music into the cultural mainstream.
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Nearby is another Floyer work, "Line Busy" (2011), a sonic series of telephone busy signals that provide a surprisingly pleasant melodic chant.
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Olaf (Hund) arrived on the second last day, so the basic structures were there, and we bounced melodic ideas off each other.
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Kuş dili, or "bird language," transforms the full Turkish vocabulary into melodic tones with varied-pitch frequencies that can travel for miles.
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The score evokes influences as diverse as Gilbert and Sullivan and Kurt Weill, and is often suffused with an evocative, melodic wistfulness.
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Both were imaginative modernists with marvelous veins of melodic lyricism and strong appetites for folk material, thrilling sonorities and drivingly percussive rhythms.
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A lament should be mostly improvised, with some basic lyrics built around a simple descending melodic phrase of four or five notes.
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A remarkable player, he seems to understand what our ear wants — blooming harmony, melodic improvisations, firm landings — and how to deliver it.
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A review in The New York Times of the show's New York run the following year, praised Hendryx's "lush and melodic" songs.
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And when the melodic line rose above high C, a realm that strains many tenor voices, Mr. Camarena was in his glory.
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It seemed like an inevitable outcome that eventually, a bunch of songs would use the same melodic sample around the same time.
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The stark "Gebet" ("Prayer"), with its grim chords and stern melodic line, seemed here the composer's premonition of his coming suicide attempt.
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Where Peep and XXXTentacion's trademark sounds were more nihilistic and morose, Juice Wrld's music was tuneful and more melodic, if also melancholic.
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Casual singing became so normalized that when I went home, it took me weeks to stop peppering my conversations with melodic interludes.
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The score sounds like Christmas music, too — it's composed by Thomas Newman, who favors strings, bells, oboes, and some joyful melodic patterns.
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Then I heard his lyrics, his melodic rhyming, and his singing and I got shivers hearing the track really coming to life.
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Over the three-minute span of "Wingbeat," you can hear Ms. Davis's talent for deriving long, dizzying motifs from smaller melodic cells.
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The intriguing way he began the slow movement made it seem like it starts in the middle of some long melodic line.
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In the interim when Hus didn't release any music, other artists had started to come through using a similar melodic-rap format.
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In June, he'll also hit the Wild Life Festival in England — fitting, as his melodic bangers have directly influenced that festival's founders, Disclosure.
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And I knew that no matter what people thought about game music, getting melodic hooks into people's heads is unbelievably powerful for branding.
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We realized we could do both, we could have an energy and aggression but you could also mix in good, catchy melodic songs.
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NWOBHM was a musical movement in Great Britain in late 1970s and early 1980s that featured fast guitars and a heightened melodic sensibility.
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It's melodic and it's kind of sad but we would get lost in it because it wouldn't have any other dimension to it.
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The music is abstract, with hints of free jazz and R&B coiled loosely around Holley's singing, which follows an idiosyncratic melodic logic.
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The furious, schizophrenic intensity of the heavy parts lets the album's melodic passages catch you entirely off guard, and leave you off-kilter.
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And by honing in on the textural and melodic quirks of her voice, she always has sturdy emotional roots for her unceasing experimentation.
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Their moody, melodic punk has one foot in 70s garage and the other in modern crunchy post-punk (think Japandroids and Cloud Nothings).
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Beneath the acoustics, there's plenty of Homme's semi-tonal melodic sensibility; try the ominous and frustratingly brief "Blood on the Wall," for example.
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Sections of cheerful, melodic ambling are followed by bursts of synths, each grandiose stab punctuated by a split second of silence right after.
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They played Source Tags and Codes in its entirety, an album with vulnerable lyrics, heavy, emotive choruses, and pummeling yet melodic guitar lines.
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Today, he's known simply as Koze (pronounced "cosy," most of the time) and is loved for his off-kilter, warm, and melodic tracks.
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Digital platforms favor glossine, unrelentingly melodic, midtempo songs that float to the top because they're not offensive enough for people to click away.
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There's proggy drum breaks, sunny new agey passages, and jittery melodic contortions, the sound of a world a lot more surreal than ours.
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And his long battle to commission more melodic, less esoteric operas — which has sometimes met with resistance from composers and disdain from critics.
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The melodic lines are jagged and disjunct, the language is proudly atonal, and the textures can take canonic counterpoint to a fetishistic extreme.
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He later developed a more melodic approach that acknowledged his Latin American heritage, and that won him a large and loyal worldwide audience.
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Tracks murmur and thrum or surge and palpitate, flush with bleary murk and melodic curlicues reminiscent of earthen atmosphere and galactic ascent alike.
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Mr. Langrée, in introductory remarks, compared Bachian counterpoint, with its melodic inversions and permutations, its rhythmic diminutions and augmentations, to a Rubik's Cube.
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Although it doesn't mark a radical departure in their sonic footprint, they haven't sounded this loose, melodic and blithe since their 2007 debut.
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Most of the song fluctuates between chord I (E major) and II (F sharp minor), with melodic hints at chord V (B major).
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The song's raison d'etre is reinstated so powerfully by its harmonic and melodic makeup that it becomes a force to be reckoned with.
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As an entrancing, melodic ballad, "4422" nests cozily amidst a heterogeneity of sounds, permanently cementing the young producer into More Life's cultural mosaic.
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This translates to a wild live show where guitars buzz like pneumatic drills over melodic lines varying from soul-pop to discordant mayhem.
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So, we may have been more liberated in the way that we want to write music and it just came out more melodic.
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We had this idea of making great melodies on rhythm instruments and making rhythms on melodic instruments, which did not make it easy.
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When I came to it was not in some gilded lounge surrounded by pulchritudinous night-nymphs and Danny Tenaglia sculpting sweet, melodic soundscapes.
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"Confess to U" pairs hard-edged funk and house sounds with a softly enveloping melodic progression, highlighting internal contrasts to subtly gorgeous effect.
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This past October, they released the new single "Brightside," a breezy, melodic ode to their friendship, and now they're back in the studio.
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"I Swear" and "Murdah" among others showcase an MC who is as dark as he is melodic, as witty as he is conscious.
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I think it's neat to have these additional rhythmic and melodic layers that you only hear if you are listening closely with headphones.
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When all the players converge, that core melodic material still lingers, but new harmonic relationships have flowered, suggesting a congenial evening of revelry.
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Ms. Rana made these awkward figurations come across delicately; the melodic line had the grace of the bel canto opera arias Chopin adored.
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Whether she's arranging looped vocal samples, pitched percussive tinkle, or conventionally melodic piano chords, the fragments stand immobile, straining for an inert complexity.
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Over the course of the track it's interpolated into a dramatically evolving series of melodic phrasings, ranging from dopamine-deprived to blissfully sultry.
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Claim to Fame: Zsela Thompson is a rising singer and songwriter of melodic, folksy ballads popular with the bicoastal art and fashion scene.
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" On ballads, he added, "he moves through light, almost diaphanous lines that gain in strength through their rhythmic flow and increasing melodic exposition.
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On albums like "The Iceberg," released in February, the Washington rapper Oddisee delivers introspective lyrics over richly melodic beats that he produces himself.
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It opens with the cellist playing soft, flickering bursts of notes and melodic fragments — as if starting a dialogue, but tentatively, almost teasingly.
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Ms. Cabello drags her syllables until they stop resembling words, and until her melodic line begins to feel detached from the beat below.
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" He likes the examples he finds in Yoruban and Afro-Cuban music, where, he said, "the drums are melodic, they're talking, it's linguistic.
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The first movement, an episodic funeral march, moved with a weighty tread, over which a somber melodic line kept trying to offer solace.
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Several of the nervier studies featured rambunctious, whipsaw conclusions to melodic statements — often ending in one of the elaborate chords Mr. Zorn favors.
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But even if these calls fall short of human melodic standards, hearing them is always a pleasant reminder of hikes through mature woodlands.
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But what begins as a melodic narrative of infidelity boldly turns into a sociopolitical and artistic declaration of black women's resistance and power.
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It also unites jazz and dance, with performances from the Parul Dance Company, as well as the bands Melodic Intersect and Jazz Carnatica.
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Melodic metal has gained a lot more traction over the last few years with the raised profiles of groups like Deafheaven and Alcest.
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Mr. Demutsky's music is melodic and serviceable, incorporating quotations from patriotic Soviet themes, Bach, Lully and various ballet scores, as the narrative demands.
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Even when Ms. Reid takes leave of the melodic cell for a contemplative solo, a memory of the earlier groove inhabits her sound.
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His debut project showcased his melodic writing style and quickly got support on radio outlets across the globe, including Soulection's Beats 1 show.
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Melodic vocal samples are chopped and screwed, gleaming atop of warped harp sounds, bombastic grooves, and elements of dancehall on the bouncy anthem.
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Ultimately, with rap well in the midst of a more melodic era, his decision to go for a lighter approach works in retrospect.
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Even in "Free Money," a track that could almost be described as melodic, her words take on a deranged life of their own.
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They got together as teenagers in 2006, and they sound like a lot of the bands who dominated melodic metal back then too.
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It was a moment for Skrillex, who finally got his own due as a melodic genius after years of derision both earned and unearned.
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Her breakout single "Sleep Away" showcased her penchant for melodic rap, and the 20-year-old is now fresh off the release of 2030.
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On my side, I did the rhythms, I added melodic lines on SH22016.12 synth and pads with Juno, then mixed down all the songs.
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Either way, Earl always did love his father's voice, the big brass of it singing out the Muslim call to prayer in melodic Arabic.
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The slow movement unfolded at a steady, almost insistent clip with no trace of sentimentality, yet nice bloom and lyricism in the melodic lines.
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In the music studio, Mr. Gyimah writes, produces and performs his own material including "Came Up," a melodic rap song he released last January.
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Unlike AVAIL, whose influence felt more like a mutation of melodic hardcore, Kid Dynamite devotees just tried to sound like the band they loved.
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Tune's by the ECB's Mario Draghi and Haruhiko Kuroda of the BOJ, once melodic and soothing, aren't making the same splash on the airwaves.
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Intricacy may be a factor — the pedantic, almost Broadwayesque melodic transitions shift often and with precision, as if announcing their intention to manipulate moods.
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"We experimented a lot with certain kinds of harmony through the verses and a lot of melodic structures in the songs," he told Kerrang.
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Just so things don't get too too tender, "Metro PCS" and "Thotties" offset the love songs with self-assured (but equally melodic) swag rap.
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The beat twists and turns as if navigating a maze, with a tenacious melodic loop keeping the entire track in a state of suspense.
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Phenomenally loud, MBV's guitar-driven avant-rock features drifting, haunted melodic lines that emerge from a deluge of electronic distortion, dissonance, and pure noise.
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While Strike Anywhere never delved into their Southern roots like AVAIL did, it was clearly the next step in the evolution of melodic hardcore.
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To me, it sounds like an obvious ode to the late David Bowie with the airiness of the track and the slow, melodic beat.
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Frontman David Kelling inverts the self-reliant worldview the band had become known for to seek comfort in others in this melodic love song.
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He also sounded melodic, his voice reaching a high note at the end of a thought, often mid-sentence, before repeating the melody again.
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"Mustn't Hurry" glides along carefully before unfolding to display a huge, glowing keyboard figure that keeps spiraling around her vocals, underlining the melodic nuance.
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"Bagel (Bite Mix)" follows Cudmore's standout solo releases on The Bunker and Honey Soundsystem Records, pairing club-ready torque with a sophisticated melodic approach.
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In terms of the video—which we're premiering below—we find Marks triplicated, her body twitching and gliding to each beat and melodic lilt.
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At the risk of Orientalizing the style, they do sound non-Western, indebted to melodic traditions of the Middle East and maybe even Russia.
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After another reporter's phone began loudly ringing with a melodic jingle, I figured the briefing room could probably deal with a more important disturbance.
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But Wayne can handle this more melodic, ambient, dreamy style as well as the cool kids of the day; after all, he invented it.
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The combined clash of styles makes the melodic passages more harmonious and the dives into nether regions of static and feedback even more terrifying.
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But there's a limit: Daniel Catán's opera "Florencia en el Amazonas" ("Florencia in the Amazon") is made up almost entirely of effusive melodic lines.
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An early adopter of polytonality (music that suggests multiple keys simultaneously), he charged his basically melodic style with a power that could sometimes overwhelm.
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Their sound was different from what was going on up in LA at the time—it was faster, more aggressive, and yet still melodic.
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But more than that, the songs had a melodic bent that suited the band well, wringing hooks out of vocalist Dave Verellen's burly shouts.
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The result is both crushing and tender, waves of beat-less bass, drone, and reverb washing up against moments of heart-stopping melodic delicacy.
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Like Vertigo's swirling, unnerving soundtrack , a recurring melodic theme surfaces throughout Sirens' foggy soundscapes, a "naive, childlike, almost nursery rhyme motif" according to Martin.
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Instead, they found themselves working toward something more melodic, bridging the gap between the scene that bred them, and the still evolving emo scene.
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The vocals deliveries surprised me—they were much more melodic than I thought and the textures in the recording really stuck with me too.
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I think getting back to our roots as a heavy metal band, but also writing some other types of songs that were more melodic.
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On its seventh album, "Sleep Well Beast," its new songs have more rhythmic ferment and melodic crosscurrents; they translate emotional complexity into musical counterpoint.
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After spinning a dissonant web of melodic strands in the opening minutes, the instruments arrive at that most fundamental of intervals: the perfect octave.
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Rexdale natives Moula 1st and Pyrex deal with this daily fear through "Wake Up," a reflective and melodic song that rejects frustration and nihilism.
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But thanks to digital streaming, formerly niche genres — K-pop, Latin trap, melodic hip-hop and more — have become the center of the conversation.
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His approach brought together extremes: It was both straight and swung (a defining trait of rock 'n' roll), percussive and melodic, aggressive and sweet.
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But some works are large-scale tragedies whose arias more easily call to mind Italian verismo, albeit with distinctly Spanish rhythms and melodic turns.
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But in Rubinstein's melodic, accessible music, we can hear some of the threads left out of music history because they haven't fit prevailing narratives.
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Beethoven drafted mostly "top line" melodic ideas, and the elements that make his music sound like itself are hardly concentrated on the top line.
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Third, the melodic lines you've chosen from his sketches; you're not sure they're the ones he chose, but at least you know they're his.
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His rugged, pliable swing feel and melodic counterintuition make him a go-to sideman for many of straight-ahead jazz's more bold-minded bandleaders.
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Her voice would stay gentle and sustained, the opposite of a belter, using grain and melodic leaps rather than lung power for emotional peaks.
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Listen to the way Mr. Tao, brings out a fleeting melodic bit in the left hand, like some taunting intrusion coming out of nowhere.
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His sense of harmony reveals itself in daring melodic extrapolations and in chords that are complex and impressionistic yet as transparent as folk music.
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One of the most impressive things about the album is how effortless Rondo sounds on melodic beats from producers like Zaytoven and Quay Global.
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For a band quite literally in their infancy, their melodic shoegazing pop is way beyond their years, both in terms of inspiration and execution.
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"I feel like something that's super melodic and 'perfectly' written already feeds you an easily digestible story—lays it all out for you," Chen says.
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"I feel like something that's super melodic and 'perfectly' written already feeds you an easily digestible story—lays it all out for you," she says.
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The teen, who has been training in Indian classical for five years, incorporates the melodic structures and emotional impact of Raga music in his songs.
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The first song, "Look Like," plays for about 15 seconds before skipping, and it sounds pretty pleasant and melodic, repeating the title for a hook.
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"Forever" is a dark and beguiling bit of love-lorn pop, sitting somewhere between the icy soundscapes of Arca and the melodic hooks of Rustie.
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As a fan of melodic pop, I have found it harder to connect intimately with Beach House since their third album, 2010's Teen Dream.
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Rather than a melodic piece, Norment and Taborn's composition was sparse and cautious, filled largely with delicate sounds that recall the fragility of glass itself.
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The Cars, their biggest seller, beloved among power-pop aficionados, applies arty synthesizer textures and knowing humor to what's essentially traditional melodic '70s hard rock.
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Even at his most poppy and melodic, Thomas's music had always relied on distortion, riffs, and harmonies, but playing alone stripped him of all that.
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The band's melodic sense, too, squashes tunes that might have soared, instead sending them plodding over square drumbursts and chugging chords that move bluntly along.
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The beat was bouncy and minimal, melodic in all the right places, and her delivery had all the London swagger of a young Lady Sovereign.
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You might recognize Jamila Woods from her joyful cameo on Chance the Rapper's Coloring Book, but on HEAVN, her melodic voice stands on its own.
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Often there are times I wish I could write a club track without that level of melodic content but I don't think I'm able to.
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His playing is ecstatic and discursive, tracing out minimal melodic lines that are at once athletic feats (he's a practiced circular breather) and delightfully free.
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But there is one hidden perk: in what other season can you listen to the delightfully melodic sound of ice shattering on a frozen pond?
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I knew before I even started working on it that I wanted it to be faster, I wanted shorter song lengths, I wanted melodic percussion.
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Slow and melodic songs like "The Shape", "The Ache" and "I Dove Into The Sun" reveals a more malleable and vulnerable side to the record.
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They're making psychedelic pop, with steady and even drum grooves, guitars playing melodic repetitions through clouds of reverb, and hazy, slow-release, enlightened-sounding vocals.
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Soon flyers popped up all over the tree condemning Walczak's opponents, mourning the death of neighborly courtesy, and praising the wind chime's melodic, warbling tune.
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Complementing the tentative, almost opaque nature of the track's melodic progression, Hebden places special emphasis on murky low-end motions topped with bursts of hiss.
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"They are now embarked on the great adventure of the night when Peter flew in looking for his shadow," Collins says in her melodic voice.
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Sharp marimbas and languid house chords meanwhile give the song melodic grounding, beefing up the sense of drama without distracting from its magnetic, rhythmic pulse.
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It was jazz from a piano-bass-drums trio, with the harmonic and rhythmic complexities of hard-bop and the melodic grace of Brazilian pop.
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I say that because the album contains elements, where structures are broken open, so it comes across as less melodic than the previous two albums.
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Its riffs flash with surgical precision, slicing away the gloomier melodic touches that characterized the group's origins and trimming any fat down to the bone.
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The first song the four wrote together is "Pavement," the only track on the LP that occupies slower, more melodic territory than ripping indie rock.
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Her team had worked to smooth out the articulation, clear up consonants and vowels, and polish the voices until they were clear and relatively melodic.
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Compared to their first two, their lead singer here attempted to break from the scream-first conventions of nu metal and make more melodic songs.
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Their music is equal parts heavy and melodic, with the sharp edges and high energy of electro and the big beats and darkness of techno.
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Skinny: Growing up, my uncle really introduced me into a lot of melodic, awesome music, and I just fell in love when I was young.
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The melodic, melancholy moments are actually some of their strongest, but when it's time to grind, they fling themselves into the fray with gleeful abandon.
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The compilation—rooted in his native Baltimore but transatlantic in outlook—is a heady mix of melodic, dewy-eyed post-punk and rugged, stretching ambience.
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Noisey: Nasty has a variety of the hard hitting stuff and your melodic music but it feels like you're going further into this raging energy.
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He described his father's sound as "like Jackson Pollock, like throwing a bunch of sounds at you … boom, boom, boom," and his own as melodic.
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Summoning's music is heavily symphonic, heavily melodic, and heavily atmospheric, centered on glorious sagas and gloomy stories from Tolkien and other more obscure fantasy authors.
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In Take 3 he teases out certain crucial notes in the left hand; in Take 4, to me, the melodic line sings out more prominently.
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Joined by the mezzo-soprano J'Nai Bridges, she sang "Se habla de Gabriel," a melodic duet with a coda by the bass-baritone Davóne Tines.
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But he developed quickly as a songwriter and, by 163, created the fully melodic pop/dance gem "Seek Bromance," a Top 15 hit in Britain.
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With his technical fluency, strategic melodic thinking and cleanly dusted tone, Wendel has become an idol to an entire generation of young tenor saxophone students.
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He opened up about his queerness on his 2017 album "Flower Boy" and released the self-produced, melodic "Igor" to widespread critical acclaim last year.
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" Anyone charmed by the mix of melodic hooks and imagistic lyrics exemplified by Belly's breakout hit "Feed the Tree" will find a way into "Dove.
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She was often captured and tied to train tracks by the villain, Snidely Whiplash, and though she had a melodic voice, she could be stern.
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The courtesies and springing footwork of "An Italian in Madrid"; the through-the-body manners of "Mazur" create Polishness by gestures, pouncing steps, melodic phrasing.
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" Slowly and steadily, the piece became more lyrical, with sung melodic fragments that charmingly juxtaposed lines like "our love of music" with "our favorite sandwich.
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Its melodic upbeat coda is in stark contrast to the primal, psychedelic, orchestrated chaos of 2/27/69 and shows where the Dead were heading.
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Mr. Ruo's style, well suited to theatrical works, vividly blends Chinese melodic elements and skittish dance riffs with tartly modernist contemporary sounds and pointillist bursts.
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My initial approach was to do something more shouty and sing-speak, but it was a little more interesting to go in a melodic direction.
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Oslo-based duo Apothek's debut single "Family" had all the hallmarks of a skewered and introverted mindset with its icy, luscious electronica and unexpected melodic turns.
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She covers Fred Neil's 1966 "Everybody's Talkin'" by stripping out all traces of the original guitar, leaving just melodic, chalky organ chords behind her dreamy voice.
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"In a culture often conflicted about its relationship to melody, and songwriting generally, Ben continues unapologetically to provide melodic clarity and musicality," he says in part.
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School Daze, Muscle Up, and Afternooners are a triad of evocative soundscapes, grand accomplishments of melodic sensibility, and very likely the best porn soundtracks ever created.
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Those who woke up to a melodic song had lower levels of daytime grogginess than those who chose a beeping sound, according to the study findings.
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People who are "not as into E.D.M. really like tropical house because it's not very hard, it's just music that's melodic and produced electronically," Kygo said.
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That's because Taylor Swift, who has been able to spin melodic gold out of heartbreak, is reportedly no longer an item with super producer Calvin Harris.
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Another collaborator who's part of the secret filming club meeting that convenes on "Camera," the self-coined White Iverson brings his melodic touch to the track.
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Q Da Fool - "Rat Time" Q Da Fool's "Rat Time" embodies what makes the Largo, Maryland rapper so effective: delivering life stories through wailing, melodic bars.
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"Hidden Truth" is something of a throwback for Darnielle, a grainy bedroom demo that elevates his wry lyricism and gentle melodic tendencies, eschewing hi-fi production.
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Where some of their oldest, most beloved songs hurtled towards their conclusions with an angsty urgency, here Okereke entertains atmospherics and many moments of melodic calm.
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Brittle, preening guitar riffing forms most of the tracks melodic base, though Aaron, ever the genre synthesist, also leans heavily on glowing 808s and quasi-rapping.
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Season three's theme song essentially makes a full return to Serial's season one theme, complete with that familiar five-note melodic motif you know and love.
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They were scrappy and melodic, minimal yet expansive—conceptual in the way all good art is, but punchy and direct, like all good punk should be.
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This is clear throughout, and notably with "A Shot In the Arm," which has the melodic instincts of Being There, but little of that album's restraint.
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Melodic, minor-key Vietnamese pop blares from the speakers as smartly turned-out young men and women sip lurid drinks, their faces lit by their phones.
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Sheeran thrives off packing personal details into his melodic lyrics that give fans a glimpse into his personal life — but it's not all for the best.
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The lead melodic line that it begins with to me has a really strong grime feel to it in both its bounciness and cartoonish sound quality.
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In its day, the group was at the vanguard of hip-hop's progressive wing, an exquisite balance of philosophical and attitudinal, melodic inventiveness and subwoofer thump.
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Together, they set out to render proteins into a melodic form that would allow researchers to hear differences from one protein, or its family, to another.
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Techno's undisputed godfather is Juan Atkins, however, a producer who forged futuristic sounds from melodic electronica and wailing synthesizers in projects like Model 500 and Cybotron.
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"Stone Wash Freezer Burn" is – to use a musical term – a melodic painting where everything fits tightly together, endowing the image with a sense of order.
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Greg: I was going to mention Epitaph too, because in the 90s, it was always either Fat or Epitaph if you were into melodic punk rock.
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Amid the chopped and re-woven dembow samples on "Perfil" is some seriously speaker-shaking bass, which dovetails nicely with the song's stripped down melodic elements.
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Singles "Pre-California" and "Welcome" are expansive jams that boast his evocative and melodic guitars, but the real surprises come with the songs where MacKay sings.
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You can hear more of Fake Palms' melodic post-punk madness on their upcoming record Pure Mind, out September 15 on Buzz Records and Pleasence Records.
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"In the communion of open pores, existence is no longer enclosed in the body," Lily Anna says, over a swirl of Spawn's melodic pants and sighs.
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The strings play ethereal tones, long-lingering as bits of melodic lines weave into the sonority and build slowly into radiant passages jostled with twitchy rhythms.
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Take LA-based upstart Vincent—his track "Her" uses melodic trap snares and periodic choral chanting to preface the Flume-atizing of the song's various climaxes.
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J Balvin: Vibras (Universal Latin) For almost a decade, J Balvin has been crafting melodic, pop-friendly reggaeton, smoothening what was once an aggressively loud genre.
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The vamp is insistently jaunty, the rhymes are delivered with a jokey cadence and there are melodic interludes, but the recurring subject is serious: gun violence.
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The requiem, which is performed with a mixture of Western and traditional Cambodian instruments and incorporates the melodic chanting known as smot, unfolds over three movements.
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There's early Adams (and the process Minimalism that preceded him) in the melodic thread forming in repeated fits and starts, trying to emerge and complete itself.
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His unorthodox, open chord gestures seem to melt into each other, while his lucid melodic runs are imbued with warmth by the young bassist Jaco Pastorius.
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One number called, "I Just Had to Say My Last Goodbye" had the jaunty, melodic feel of Todd Rundgren, or the band Chicago in the 203s.
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Now it's moving again toward a different place through a melodic pattern or a diffusion of harmonic relationships or a gradual surge in density or speed.
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This stomping track opens with a typically biting but melodic guitar solo from Elliot Easton, who propels it through an action-packed, under-three-minute length.
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He liked the sound of her voice, melodic and sweet, and her caring nature — almost every day, she checked to make sure he had eaten breakfast.
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Instead, Young's music centered on a distinctive alternation of melodic beauty, earsplitting feedback and passages where he seemed to be playing his guitar with his fist.
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