Have the two of you made a noodling date yet?
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You actually hear him noodling on the live record, too.
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Suddenly you're writing a song and not just noodling around.
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Soft-edged noodling grooves create a space that's personal and vulnerable.
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At the very least ... it's clear Oprah's now noodling the idea.
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MR: Uh, I'm not going to be doing a lot of noodling.
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One of his rules is "no noodling," which means no fussy brushwork.
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When I started writing cookbooks, I thought I'd have to stop noodling.
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I enjoy fly-fishing, but noodling, I'm afraid, I'll leave to Paul. Rep.
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Before I called you, I was noodling around on one of my guitars.
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It aired when "noodling" was a fad, if you remember those halcyon days.
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Mr. Simkin comes off worst: All the noodling crumples his less-than-steely bearing.
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Much of it consists of folks sitting around cracking jokes and noodling on guitars.
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But the noodling of Spalding and her band is in service of an artistic immolation.
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Instead it's mostly him noodling around over the beat and shouting out the producer, Deezle.
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He noted several times that he had been noodling over these ideas since long before November.
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There are other things we are noodling inside the administration, we're working with the house and the senate.
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Instead, he was noodling around in Auto-Tune, often off-key, making songs that sometimes barely even cohered.
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When I started farming, I thought I'd be giving up noodling away on creative things like story structure.
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In another time, the three women might have started noodling around in someone's basement and formed a band.
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Her inspiration to have the type of swimsuit she wanted led to her noodling around with digital designs.
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With just a few pointers from Butera, I quickly found myself noodling around and making different instrument sounds.
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Dr. Ricker said he and his colleagues had started "noodling" about a planet-finding mission back in 213.7.
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Not that people aren't still noodling; I'm sure as long as there are mudcats there will be noodlers.
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And that was it – we started noodling on how to convert his knowledge and disposition into a scalable business.
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Today's episode is a grab bag of topics, including some self-driving stuff, late-stage venture noodling, and Microsoft.
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And he didn't sound like he was noodling around on an idea anymore; it was an actual, structured song.
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To its many detractors, it amounts to little more than pretentious noodling, based as it is largely on improvisation.
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About four years ago, Dr. Strominger started noodling around with theoretical studies about gravity dating to the early 1960s.
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His paint surfaces became thinner and smoother in the nineteen-sixties, with few visible brush marks (and no noodling).
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I was just noodling yesterday: China, phase one, probably could be half a point or more, GDP next year.
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As we reported, ABC honchos are noodling whether to add a third hour of 'GMA,' which would displace 'Live.
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In case you didn't know, noodling is the act of catching wild catfish by hand, and it looks damn difficult.
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Production sources say FOX execs were noodling on 3 female candidates for the final spot -- Trainor, Fergie and BeBe Rexha.
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His melodies and the producer's spiraling synth noodling and punchy drum lines might just turn your bedroom into a dancefloor.
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When a cat waltzed into the barn, inspiration struck, and Lee killed time by noodling with alternative lyrics to Smith's single.
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Fortt Knox asked Dell what he thought tomorrow's Michael Dell is noodling with in his or her dorm room right now.
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It's light and flexible, perfect for icy days when the weather isn't great and you're just noodling around in the park.
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The entrancing folk track finds Leithauser's voice backed by an angelic choir, acoustic guitar noodling, and a galloping, Western-style build.
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But unlike the genre of pardon that the current White House could be noodling, Ford's pardon applied to a single individual.
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But that requires extra fuel and time, so sometimes, pilots who're noodling a turbulence strategy make the call to just push through.
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Elsewhere on single "The Bird Song," the band ventures into a more yacht-ready territory, evoking the breezy noodling of Steely Dan.
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It's kind of like when your buddy in that covers band you play in on the weekends won't stop noodling during practice.
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Employers can read emails and track keystrokes and monitor locations and clock the amount of time their employees spend noodling on Twitter.
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Now he's noodling away on his visions of an American empire in decline out on the fringes of the Peak TV landscape.
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I used to spend a lot of time noodling over what to buy for the person of my gift list who has everything.
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Such noodling with success, replacing a leader with a limited strategic vision with another who is comfortable aiming higher, rarely happens in sports.
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Shantanu Gaur and Samuel Levy started noodling on the idea of a better gastric balloon about seven years ago while at Harvard Medical School.
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It helps that both Mr. Chacon and Ms. Bruce are good musicians who pull off their characters' noodling on a piano and guitar, respectively.
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It's more admitting to myself that for many years I've been noodling around with different ideas, but I'm actually going to commit to finishing this.
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But overall, Rock Band VR just drives home how big the gap is between playing a real concert and noodling around with a prop guitar.
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I'll still be noodling on about some idea I think is fascinating, and the rest of the room is two or three pitches further on.
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Ms. Wang, a University of Pennsylvania graduate who hails from Canada, has been noodling on the problem of plastic waste since she was a teenager.
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Live at the Necropolis: Lords of the Synth is a perfectly pitched retro-fitted homage to the cosmic noodling of Giorgio Moroder, Vangelis and Wendy Carlos.
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One song is just Kendrick Lamar rapping like he's coming out of a boombox across the street followed by two minutes of extremely sick synthesizer noodling.
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Hillary Clinton was at a small gathering recently with some politically connected people in NYC, and it seems she's noodling the idea of running for mayor.
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When you woke up this morning, did you think what you were missing was DJ Khaled screaming "WE THE BEST MUSIC" over Carlos Santana's guitar noodling?
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The Warriors were up, three games to one, and planning celebratory excursions to Napa and noodling with the latest toys coughed up by Silicon Valley sycophants.
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Noodling, also known as hand-fishing, grabbling and tickling, has long been legal in the Midwest and Deep South, but has always been illegal in West Virginia.
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The videogame designers behind celebrated titles like Crypt of the Necrodancer, Hollow Knight, and Super Meat Boy all got their start noodling around with Flash, Fulp says.
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There's playful balearic, sections of ambient interspersed with chanting a bird sounds, and some edgier analog noodling that could send curious ripples through an open-minded dancefloor.
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Senator Jeff Flake will not answer the question -- will he challenge Donald Trump in the 2020 primaries -- but he makes it pretty clear he's noodling the idea.
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When he's not facing down a microphone or noodling away in the rehearsal space, Willetts maintains quite an active Twitter presence, which is how we first became acquainted.
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The movie's aesthetic is deeply indebted to rock n' roll: It opens to the noodling of King Crimson's "Starless," and is flooded with scarlet light and dry ice.
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Senator Rand Paul, Republican of Kentucky, who was noodling over a crossword puzzle on Wednesday, could be seen on Thursday laboring over a detailed sketch of the Capitol.
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" Toning town the intensity of Haslam's offering, the pair add a spread of syncopated rhythms among the record's acidic noodling that the that label themselves describe as "angular funk.
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As it stands, most TV projects from "movie people" turn those early installments into what amount to really long first acts, filled with exposition and setup and pointless noodling.
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Hushed electric piano noodling spirals all over the place on "Hashtag," a sleek downtempo track whose relaxed hop shares a contained energy, compressed through superficial quietude, with Jonghyun's breathy murmur.
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Hinds and Kelliher continue to be one of metal's most dynamic guitar duos; the years spent noodling together have only made their layering, riffs, and melodies exponentially greater and more complex.
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It sounds like Beto O'Rourke is noodling a run for The White House in 2020, because the Congressman is not shutting down rumors he may challenge Donald Trump for the Presidency.
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Last month a dude went viral for noodling a 50-pound catfish out of the flooding river waters, then marching it through downtown cradled in his bare hands for half a mile.
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Sticking to his M.O. of airy synth noodling, creamy basslines, and the occasionally soft-spoken word, the title track ebbs and flows like the waves on your local stretch of sandy beach.
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Indeed, some of the unfathomable art on view here looks like the kind of self-obsessed artwork used on the covers of overindulgent, noodling, progressive rock concept albums from the early 1970s.
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I started noodling around on it in 2009, and spent a couple years just looking for the right case, and looking for the right characters and seeing where the reporting would take me.
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It was during that first psychedelic trip that Wilson sat down at the piano and began noodling around on the keyboard, trying to capture the sounds and melodies bouncing around inside his head.
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Instead, they saved their most ambitious noodling for Here's To Shutting Up, an album that at times felt like their swan song, which would have been a weird one to go out with.
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Despite all of his attempts at cross-genre noodling, the best song on the album is the most straightforward attempt at country music, "Say Something," which finds Timberlake playing backup for Chris Stapleton .
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A favorite criticism among those who would cut the flow of research funding is that universities are out of-touch and filled with researchers noodling on rarified concerns in their proverbial ivory towers.
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"The time Steve Jobs was putting things off and noodling on possibilities was time well spent in letting more divergent ideas come to the table," Wharton professor Adam Grant previously told Business Insider.
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That changed in May, when members of the state Natural Resources Commission voted to create a noodling season with a fixed opening date of June 15 and a fixed closing date of Aug. 31.
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The broad strokes are these: At the age of 13, noodling around with a video camera, he and a friend made a funny video for the bat mitzvah of a friend of a friend.
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And the film's structure, which evokes the shiny, breathless vacuity of "all-access" promotional documentaries like "Katy Perry: Part of Me," does not crowd the riffing and noodling with too much plot or sentiment.
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Tap over to your explore page and you'll no doubt find *inhale* soap cutting, sand smushing, slime handling, paint mixing, calligraphy writing, industrial machine-ing, hypnotic CG noodling, and whatever the hell this is.
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It's also a very fun tool for looping and noodling, allowing you to record and replay various licks and, with the help of tools like Garage Band, record sketches of songs on the fly.
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From its beginnings in the 1990s, Weezer made itself a band for the left-out and the uncool, the geeky guys who ended up noodling on a guitar instead of getting the dream girl.
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I've encountered something similar many times since, oftentimes from people with scant knowledge but strong convictions that Phish is atrocious, a laughingstock, a noodling Grateful Dead wannabe playing insipid music to weed-addled scenesters.
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That uncertainty permeates the first act of "Miss Americana," in which Swift is glimpsed noodling around on new songs, teasing her mom and admitting that she had never tried a burrito until age 26.
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You can't hide the amount of noodling in these books by doing your best Austen — Lady Catherine is seemingly kidnapped, and left in a cell slowly filling with water — and Aiken doesn't try to.
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The Chairman of the House Oversight Committee appeared Wednesday on "TMZ Live" and made it clear ... he's noodling over whether to fire off the legal docs that could force the hands of Trump and Comey.
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Like his previous Animal Eclipse EP, Neptune's new track "WaterFlakePond" demonstrates his penchant for the sublime and atmospheric—he mixes bright key strokes with periodic breaths of bass, concluding the song with ambient synth noodling.
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I haven't been passionate about pro wrestling since childhood, but I've always heard that WrestleMania — like the Kentucky Derby, a NASCAR race, and competitive noodling — is a sporting event that must be experienced in person.
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Fried guitar noodling, haunting vocal loops, drum machines, and miscellaneous electronics layer into terrifying, fathomless swells of sound, then disperse, only to wash up on the shore later and cut the bottom of your foot.
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"We've been noodling more on this middle-class tax cut, how to structure it, and even pay for it," National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow said in a recent interview in his West Wing office.
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Back in 2014 movie blogs were all over Spielberg mentioning during a "Good Morning America" interview that he was noodling a potential remake of the classic Broadway musical about a pair of star-crossed teen lovers.
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From noodling on a piano at home, to huge concert scenes filmed for real at Coachella and Glastonbury festivals that Rooney found "electrifying", the songs were recorded live, putting Gaga's best-known talent in the spotlight.
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We'll keep noodling on this one, and report in as review embargoes become known to us — they're usually set right around the time of the earliest press screenings, a week to a month out from release.
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Produced by Berninger, guitarist Bryce Dessner, and Aaron Dessner in the latter's upstate New York-based Long Pond studio, Sleep Well Beast was partially borne out of sketches that came from Aaron's own at-home noodling.
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On the other end, there was the album closer "Hey Foxymophandlemama, That's Me," a nearly eight-minute sound collage that was an amalgam of guitar noodling, drum fills, and recordings of patients at a psychiatric hospital.
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Even though he's a proper Englishman, chef Ramsay isn't afraid to get down and dirty, which is exactly what he did when he went noodling in Oklahoma on the latest episode of his show The F Word.
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Forming a band in the latter years of his high school career, he holed up in teenage bedrooms and practice spaces, stitching together Captain, We're Sinking's frantic, noodling punk rock alongside co-vocalist and guitarist Leo Vergnetti.
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I don't want to make it awkward for them as they have really big careers, and I'm noodling about doing my own thing, but I know Simon and I's paths will cross again—our bond is deep.
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And while I'm not saying I need The Good Place to wrap in season four or even season five, I do want some assurance that the series has a destination in mind, instead of endless noodling with time.
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I turn around to wave to him before I walk out of the room, but he's already sat at the table with a guitar—noodling away at something new, finding voice for something else he has to say.
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There were hours of us just noodling around until something cohesive was formed and then Dave and I would lay down the drums and bass and Tom and Whitney would come back and work their magic with overdubs.
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"Tom Hodge added some Fender Rhodes noodling for extra retro feel, and Kevin McGloughlin nailed the visual approach with a great technique for presenting waves as the product of strong moving lines in a simple colour scheme," Cooper says.
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Whether he's exhorting you to reach for the stars or noodling away at a high-flying Thin Lizzy-meets-NWOBHM riff, Black's enthusiasm is infectious, and his pure love for 80s heavy metal and 413s stadium rock is unsurpassed.
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"It installs in a jiffy and comes with a ton of features for all types of users, no matter if you're a beginner just starting out with a VPN or an advanced user who likes noodling around with settings."
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It installs in a jiffy and comes with a ton of features for all types of users, no matter if you're a beginner just starting out with a VPN or an advanced user who likes noodling around with settings.
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LG: Another massively important development in Facebook's history was newsfeed, and in the book you talk about how in one of your earliest meetings with Zuckerberg, if not the first meeting you had with him, he was noodling this.
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But as I have noted above, that line, that touch, is already fully evident in the 1910 "Seated Male Nude, Back View" and 1911 "Reclining Nude Girl in Striped Smock" drawings that both smack of Art Nouveau's noodling nervousness.
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Though Rick — and, by extension, the more laid-back Cliff — are stuck wondering whether there's a place for their TV Western skill set in a changing Hollywood, Tarantino clearly feels right at home noodling around in 1969 Los Angeles.
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Todd VanDerWerff: If I might interject, I do think what made Twin Peaks exceptional was how TV-like it truly was, the way its episodes really were episodes, even if they seemed like weird avant garde noodling. Sorry. Sorry.
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They each wield melody like a hammer to the head, making it clear that these songs aren't about noodling around in a 7/4 time signature, but are all about the clarity of tone that the best pop so often creates.
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Justin Bieber's "Sorry," with its shimmery production by Skrillex and BloodPop, and the balearic noodling of CFCF (both of which are sterling tracks) get close, but neither approach to the actual innovation and importance electronic artists currently hold in the zeitgeist.
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"The time Steve Jobs was putting things off and noodling on possibilities was time well spent in letting more divergent ideas come to the table, as opposed to diving right in with the most conventional, the most obvious, the most familiar."
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I cite this example to make clear an attitude that waxed and waned in different decades, sometimes as a reaction to over proficient noodling with the backlash for symphonic black metal or other times as a stance against the atmospherics.
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Whitman was often derided (on the relatively few occasions when people actually paid attention to his poems, but also by many others who never read a word) as a noodling, egomaniacal amateur with weird ideas and a suspiciously populist streak.
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Loose, jazzy, and full-of-hooks that effort stood as the band's best and a blueprint for their albums to come, ditching the frenetic garage rock that gave them blog buzz for compelling noodling and James Petralli's soulful vocal melodies.
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Finally, Cook gave us a hint during Apple's last earnings call that the company is noodling around with the idea of an "Apple Prime" subscription bundle that would include everything from yearly iPhone upgrades to streaming services for one monthly fee.
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Take New Order, the English futurists who, after exploring the mega-clubs of early-nineteen-eighties New York, released "Blue Monday" and the seminal album "Power, Corruption & Lies," noodling with new kick-drum cadences and dollops of jostling Italo synthesizer.
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That all said, if you're Four Tet of course, in four-and-a-half hours you can take a bunch of Los Angeles residents on a fantastical adventure across noodling jazz, delicate ambient, full-bodied funk, percussive workouts, and even some Young Thug.
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"Dis Generation" builds a positive solidarity anthem from a cheerfully echoey guitar line and noodling bass, plus a massively intergalactic chorus whose goofy power riff, string accompaniment, and sampled reggae squeals soar into the sky ("This is our generation, generation, uh huh, yeah").
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She shines only at her lushest: "Oh, What a World" aches as it layers on the vocoder, and "Lonely Weekend," an amalgamation of multiple jangly, glossy, silky guitar sounds, soars gorgeously, especially when the glazed keyboard noodling lifts the song at the end.
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Nestled amongst the moans and groans that shake the foundations of every whitewashed house in Van Nuys, and the clapperboard clanks emanating from the area's endless movie studios, is a beguiling blend of library music, cosmic Americana, and sunblushed new age noodling.
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Each chorus was uproarious, the sonic equivalent of watching the band hurl themselves against the crowd at a show, but with an airtight construction full of little drum fills, guitar noodling, and Bixler-Zavala's voice breaking up on his emphatic, throat-shredding screams.
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Waymo just launched a limited service in metro Phoenix (albeit with a safety driver behind the wheel); General Motors' Cruise is testing in San Francisco; Ford is noodling around Florida; Aurora and Argo (which is closely aligned with Ford) swing through the hills of Pittsburgh.
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Now behold waves of pealing keyboard ripples, noodling trebly guitar, sweeping electronic strings, organic grooves inhabiting a soft-rock variant on neosoul, and a panoply of chirpy female R&B voices, most prominently Estelle and Kali Uchis, whispering sweet nothings and providing vocal cushioning.
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The original is a gorgeous song anyway, but Chance's bars and occasional whoops into the mic make it twice as uplifting, and Skrillex's guitar noodling mixed with the voices of the gospel choir make you feel like quitting your job and moving to the beach.
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The writing and the acting stick to an unpretentious, almost just-noodling-along naturalism while slowly, quietly charting out moral and emotional dilemmas — chiefly about responsibility, chiefly within the framework of a troubled family — so dense they would burst the spine of a proper literary American novel.
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Dominant in the musical slipstream are glassy keyboards, angular guitar riffs, cooing background sighs whose queasy sway provides sweetening, and bass guitar so fluid and hyperactive he could be parodying fusion jazz — quite a bit of noodling, skipping and popping and spiraling around in lithe, giddy patterns.
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And does that mean interest rates don't go down during the next recession, which is an idea I've been noodling around for a long time maybe they go higher with I've had a call the next two years that come 23 the ten-year treasury will be at 6%.
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They do a really great job of blending atmospheric sounds, field recordings, modular noodling, and the occasional filtered out kick drum to create music that is surprisingly not masturbatory or meandering (which is quite a rare thing when it comes to this sort of music, in my experience).
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The basketball expert in charge is openly antagonizing his most important player, attempting to trade him for draft picks he may be ill-equipped to use, and all the while, the big boss man will be noodling with his buddies in a wine bar when everything goes down.
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If working with a personal teacher isn't an option for you — or your interest in noodling around on a guitar, a piano or another instrument is still at the casual level — turn to your laptop or mobile device to learn the basics in your own time and space.
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His technical skill, evident in his loose, laid-back, absent-minded guitar noodling, is as reassuring to fans of power blues as "White Christmas" and "Sentimental Moments" are to the collective American heart; the result is a brand of synthetic all-purpose pumpkin pie so rarefied it evaporates into ether.
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Recognizing these drawbacks, exercise scientists at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, who have been noodling in their labs for years with different types and lengths of H.I.I.T. workouts, began to consider how best to simplify and shorten intense training so that it could be doable for most people but still effective.
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I sat atop busted amplifiers and cold radiators in Bushwick practice spaces, paging through back issues of prestige magazines, watching various crushes suck on hand-rolled cigarettes and finger their drumsticks and slide guitars, listening attentively to their noodling in preparation for my feedback to be solicited, though it never was.
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Wedged between some technically-proficient-but-soulless prog-noodling and plodding-but-uninspiring black-death, Auðn offered a fresh take on black metal that pays respect to its forebears while threatening to step into realms of brilliance that could see them join the current flock of Icelandic innovators, Svartidauði, Sinmara and Misþyrming.
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That is the entire case for Taurus-as-Stairway, the partial similarity of four bars of guitar, also omitting the different backing instruments in the section in question (in "Stairway", two recorders floating above the guitar line, in "Taurus", sweeping strings below it and a noodling electric guitar quiet in the mix).
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Lifelike 3D scenes should naturally lend themselves to improved viewing in VR. While, in Sketchfab's case, if you're just dipping in for a quick look at a particular animated artifact or 3D scene you're perhaps less likely to experience the sickly side-effects of spending too much time noodling around in VR.
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A generational guitar talent and reliable soft-rock hitmaker with seven Grammys, Mr. Mayer is also a master conversationalist prone to verbal solos, noodling in impressionistic bursts about his nature and career, weaving in therapy-speak, potential stand-up bits and a barrage of mixed metaphors as if he's writing this story himself.
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Bad memories of Andrew W.K. noodling on a drum set for a full day or Jay Z and Marina Abramovic hamming it up at Pace Gallery for six hours are painful reminders that just because something goes longer, harder, or faster doesn't necessarily mean it will be braver, more artistically complex, or, well, better.
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So as five voices trade leads on 19 selections from five 1966-69 gigs (including their forgotten opening slot at a Monterey Pop Festival they should have been smack in the middle of), their controlled distortion and power melodies obliterate the wet noodling and wispy lyricism of the "ballroom" ex-folkies who considered them phonies.
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Their swingy guitar plucking, luxurious saxophone noodling, off-kilter jazz chords, swirly clouds of backing vocals, and general aura of stylish melancholy would feel unbearably beguiling and sexy if the whole package weren't so candidly artificial, which makes the implied romanticism look a little silly but also more fascinating, in a perversely amusing way.
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In an interview with Politico's Ben White published a week after the election, Kudlow acknowledged the idea was essentially dead: "We've been noodling more on this middle-class tax cut, how to structure it, and even pay for it," National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow said in a recent interview in his West Wing office.
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Snatches of musical allusions, quotations and fake quotations — like straight-tone choral singing with an English Renaissance flavor; a synthesizer whose incessant noodling during scene transitions sounds like a harpsichord on Dexedrine; and an onstage rock band that plays a funk song with Orlando during a 1960s sequence — vanish almost as soon as they appear.
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Whether it's Mark McGuire noodling into the infinite bliss of six-string-nirvana, the deep-listening electronica that John Elliott releases under his Outer Space alias, or Steve Hauschildt's trippy and tricksy ambient excursions on Kranky, their music has elevated itself to the immediate buy-on-site category, which is probably the highest compliment you can pay an artist.
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If a film's only goal is to be stylish, it might as well be a music video, and that's what most of The Neon Demon feels like: a collection of flashy, colorful, high-concept music videos for songs that are dragged down by at least a couple of minutes of dull, self-satisfied noodling instrumental filler.
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AND SO THE REAL QUESTION, AND THIS IS SOMETHING WE'RE NOODLING WITH A DOUBLELINE, AND WE'RE GONNA LET SOME OF THE DEVELOPMENTS FORM OUR POINT OF VIEW, NOW WE DON'T HAVE A PRESET POINT OF VIEW, ALWAYS BETTER TO KEEP AN OPEN MIND, BUT WILL THE NEXT RECESSION BE BOND FRIENDLY WITH ALL OF THAT SUPPLY COMING?
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There's plenty of -core afoot here, too, lest ye imagine for an instant that Backslider's gone soft; the ignorant grooves on "Sex in Prison" and noise rock noodling on "Swollen and Sore" alone make the purchase price worth it, to say nothing of the five other tracks that whip by in a flash on this short, salty beauty of a debut.
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As the pair work their way up the Scoville scale, Hot Ones host Sean Evans asks Leone about everything from the most overrated Thanksgiving food to catfish noodling — while four of his co-stars (yes, including your fancy junk food queen Claire Saffitz) pop up to grill him on some key hypotheticals, from apocalypse supplies to a revealing fuck/marry/kill.
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She can, if required, play Clarice Starling, in "Hannibal" (2001), or an evil President, in two installments of "The Hunger Games" (2014-15); but she holds our attention with equal ease, and without a speck of vanity, when simply noodling around, as she does in Lelio's film—hand-washing her clothes in the bathroom sink, and pausing to tweak a hair from under her chin.
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But throughout the album they roll and rush through a comparable slipstream with its own singular sense of rhythm — always gliding or tumbling or cascading toward some distant, unspecified destination on the horizon — and its own sound too, shiny and multifaceted and angular, stacking several layers of blocky, percussive guitar chords and high, spiky guitar noodling and twanged rubbery bass around the swooping aerial contours of her singing.
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Three years later, 2011's Bon Iver mixed in a bunch of orchestrated electronics that vaguely recall megaplatinum AOR fixtures like Toto and Howard Jones without sacrificing languid atmosphere or melancholy quietude, daubing the residual guitar plucking and waves of noodling synthesizer with the kind of smooth plastic gloss that goes down like strawberries and cream when applied to teenpop but in this inappropriate folk-rock context tastes like cold turkey grease.
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I count two songs on Everything Now that haven't completely given up on life: "Peter Pan," whose plinked keyboards and funkoid bassline are sparse enough to let the song's emotion breathe, and the penultimate "We Don't Deserve Love," whose climactic descending guitar hook suits both the queasy synth noodling in the verse and the quiet pathos of a romantic anthem that, after an album's worth of vitriol, aims to establish love as humanity's redeeming factor.
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Despite the jeers from fellow poets and theater managers who inform him that he will never amount to anything, Will manages to collaborate with one poet on Edward III and scrape together Two Gentlemen of Verona and the beginning of Henry VI, Part I on his own, all the while noodling around on ideas for Romeo and Juliet in his spare time and gazing longingly at pretty blonde Alice Burbage (Olivia DeJonge, and yes, the character is related to Richard Burbage; enjoy yourself, Shakespeare nerds).
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Dry, aching voices, crude horn honk, noodling jazz guitar, quietly crackling flickers of static, all this gets played against clean electronic surfaces and squiggly synthesizers to shape a sonic disparity that also serves to contextualize both sides — the soul/jazz material sounds old and weird partially because hearing it during a speedy dance mix creates the illusion of discovery, as if Moodymann were sorting through piles in the back of a record store, playing Big Muff's "My Funny Valentine" cover for the first time, and falling in love with the glittering keyboards and liquid bassline.
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