He had a lovely sort of raspiness to his voice.
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Jauregui raps as much as she sings, allowing the unique raspiness of her voice to shine.
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What really gets me is the raspiness in her voice, which plays off the sticky sweetness of the song's lyrics.
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Without autotune, her voice is more authentic, and the raspiness of the vocals gives the song a brand new twist.
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The ecstatic raspiness of 79-year-old Brazilian samba legend Elza Soares makes for a consuming, hip-swaying listen in its own right.
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"Black Cat" forever silenced critics who complained of Jackson's supposedly thin voice; she practically screams on this track, reaching for the same high notes as Axl Rose combined with the raspiness of Joan Jett.
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I was there with Noah, a man whom I was apparently in love with, and my voice broke with the raspiness of a Los Angeles artist-girl who always sounds like she's trying not to laugh.
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Captain Parker told his men instead to disperse and go home, but, because of the confusion, the yelling all around, and due to the raspiness of Parker's tubercular voice, some did not hear him, some left very slowly, and none laid down their arms. Both Parker and Pitcairn ordered their men to hold fire, but a shot was fired from an unknown source.Fischer, pp.190–191 The first of four engravings by Amos Doolittle from 1775.
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Henry Goldblatt of Entertainment Weekly praised the vocal performance and wrote that Kelly owns country-ish "Low." Arion Berger of Rolling Stone wrote that "the album's producers jam Clarkson into the stilettos of MTV sexpots like Faith Hill in 'Low'."" Slant Magazine's editor Sal Cinquemani called it an "adult-skewed power ballad" "overwrought". Elysa Gardner of USA Today editor Elysa Gardner praised "Clarkson's singing", writing that it "can take on a sensual raspiness more evocative of blues- influenced rock artists, so that wistful but driving numbers such as 'Low' and 'Just Missed the Train' sound more authoritative than you might expect.
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Let It Ride garnered a mixed reception upon release. At the time the Shed's were deemed to be taking on a 'new', punchier sound following first hearings of their comeback single, "She Left Me on Friday", with various reviewers drawing comparisons to both Black Grape and Blur. The NME, who labelled the song "the most fiendishly clever Blur parody ever", went on to liken the album's sound to that of both The Rolling Stones and The Stone Roses in their lukewarm review; Writing for The Guardian in June 1998, Caroline Sullivan saw Let It Ride as an improvement on the band's previous album, stating that "it aspires to bigger things, and almost gets there [whilst] singer Rick Witter has even acquired a raspiness that complements the beefy music".
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