An old man strummed a guitar on a street corner.
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But what happens when different voices are amplified, different notes strummed?
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It's not a lament: it's a gallop, quick-strummed and belted.
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A pastor strummed an old guitar and led them in hymns.
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" He then strummed out a string of hits, including "Message in a Bottle.
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Strummed guitars and plucked pianos are integrated smoothly and hardly make a difference.
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While he strummed, he talked about how he uses coconut oil to masturbate.
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Her patriotic messaging could tug at the nationalistic heartstrings Mr Trump strummed in 2016.
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The Nashville musician brought out his guitar and strummed a tune during his proposal.
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When I thought of what she said, a perfect G chord strummed inside me.
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The echoing drums, the strummed acoustic guitars and those crystal clear, completely fake flutes.
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As a guitarist strummed quiet chords, about a dozen people gathered in the parking lot.
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It's the same instrument the Nirvana frontman famously strummed during his epic "MTV Unplugged" performance.
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Her husband, Mr. McMullen, 63, who is retired from the plumbing business, strummed his guitar.
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Their detractors take umbrage with more ideological issues before the band have strummed a single note.
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She strummed the guitar with her boot, played piano while standing on a bench ... the works.
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The songs are waltzes and hymns and marches, centered on piano or guitar, strummed or fingerpicked.
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By the time he strummed a guitar while singing "Those Magic Changes," I was 100% Team Doody.
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Maenad tongue— come-drunk hum-tranced honey-puller—for her hips, I am—strummed-song and succubus.
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The stage was packed with seven musicians, two of them dancing nonstop as they strummed traditional instruments.
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At first the guitars played mellow, alluring music, all slowly strummed, lingering tones and gently lapping riffs.
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Try "The Cross," half-strummed acoustic gospel elegy, half-thundering rock anthem, with guitars more distorted than usual.
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A microphone hovered in front of him, and a music therapist strummed a guitar softly by his side.
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A bright spot, however, was the periodic sound of the oud, an Arabic lute strummed by Saleh Katbeh.
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She had become close with Stacy because they both played guitar, and they often strummed folk tunes together.
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Romance and rue, gray skies and dead leaves, whispery song lyrics over sensitively strummed guitars on the soundtrack.
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The Soundgarden frontman strummed a guitar for the stripped-down, in-studio performance, which showed off his singular vocals.
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The song narrates the story of a love destroyed over alcoholism above strummed guitar chords and Kygo's pulsing piano.
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Halfway in, the almost poppy, heavy-strummed "Emergency Blimp" gives way to "Czech One," a mournful, crooned half-ballad.
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As she strummed her guitar, one woman sat up in bed, lifted her arms and began to move rhythmically.
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Next, Robert Coover, 41, a medical writer from New Jersey, strummed a song on the mandolin about subway proselytizers.
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Soon they were spending evenings at the house's gazebo, talking into the night while Mr. McKinley strummed his guitar.
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Her violin, in combination with Ms. McCalla's cello, both bowed and strummed, lent classical underpinnings to some of the selections.
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On "Believe" the band intertwines several fleecy, chilly riffs and strummed parts, creating a churning swirl of an echo chamber.
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Enthusiastic slide guitar and rhythmically strummed acoustic underline his sudden fascination, gleefully playing a melody that's both grand and dinky.
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She stood behind home plate, strummed her guitar confidently, and landed her voice cooly in the center of each note.
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" In his tune, Simpson crooned about Cyrus while he strummed his acoustic guitar, singing that she's got "a golden thing.
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" In the track, Simpson crooned about Cyrus while he strummed his acoustic guitar, singing that she's got "a golden thing.
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Corcoran did see the site of Phillips' farm, in particular the porch where he sang and strummed through so many nights.
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Of the latter, my favorite is "Fool," one of those irritatingly cheerful strummed acoustic coffeeshop singalongs and its marvelously cheerful tune.
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On the original, a gently strummed guitar melody is looped, accruing claps and a bass drum beat as it churns along.
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As a high school group from Ottawa filed by, he strummed the chords to "Imagine" and began his usual polite patter.
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While Coot slept, Buddy picked up that guitar and strummed it; it seemed like something magical, something he had to master.
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On screen, the singer strummed a guitar while standing on the roof of a pickup truck in a field of wildflowers.
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Chipper, circular electric jangle, a giant wall of strummed acoustic guitar, and jaunty drums define an anthem of spectacular aerodynamic efficiency.
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" In his tune, Simpson, 22, crooned about Cyrus while he strummed his acoustic guitar, singing that she's got "a golden thing.
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The actors and friends strummed guitars and sang to one another in one of the series' more memorable numbers from season 1.
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As her owner John Rose strummed Bella's favorite blues song, she belted some soulful vocals — in the form of meows, of course.
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Photo Source: Pixabay Over the weekend, a banjo jauntily strummed on the airwaves of Mansfield 103.2, a local radio station in England.
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The strummed acoustic guitar, plinky pianos, sighing, honey-coated backup singers, and sparingly deployed horns and glockenspiel equal a consistent band sound.
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They selfied the living heck of themselves, throwing rap hands while pony-tailed Labess strummed and drenched strings over the entire theatre.
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They slept in the parks, gave their bodies to strangers, strummed guitars, panhandled, meditated and tried or preached many paths to enlightenment.
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In one, he and a friend improvised a rap remix of Bell Biv DeVoe's "Poison" as they strummed along on a guitar.
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Larson sat close to the camera in a green polka-dotted dress as she strummed her blue guitar and sang the lyrics.
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The song's restlessly strummed folk-rock ponders whether the trauma was worth it, circling through possibilities but never settling on an answer.
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While technicians worked on the video, one actor playing Mailer strummed a ukulele; another chatted with Ms. Tierney, who plays Ms. Greer.
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Sheeran brought the guitar -- and his finest red cargo shorts -- and strummed away while he and Don took turns with the verses.
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The melodies Phillips strummed on his lyre-like instrument mellow the prophetic condemnations, like a soapbox preacher standing next to a carousel ride.
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Instruments are strummed, hit, tapped, thumped, and in a variety of other original ways exploited to produce a twinkling array of exotic sounds.
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PARELES "Head Alone" sounds at first like placid folk-rock, with two strummed guitar chords behind the Australian songwriter Julia Jacklin's reedy voice.
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ROLLING BLACKOUTS COASTAL FEVER A three-guitar front line — plucked, sustained and most often busily strummed — gives this Australian band its brisk pacing.
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In typical form for Del Rey, the track's a billowing ballad led by a sleepily strummed acoustic guitar and some shimmering slide work.
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Dolefully strummed guitar and vibrantly plinked piano provide a fairly empty sonic minimum that he occasionally augments with drums, strings, horns, and such.
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"Hold You Now" is a haunting folk lullaby, with a sampled choir overtaking the quieter, strummed acoustic verses, as the pedal steel cries.
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It's a pointed departure from the strummed-guitar sound of "Burn Your Fire for No Witness," the breakthrough album Ms. Olsen released in 2014.
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In youth group meetings, he strummed his guitar, golden curls falling in his face as he sang that his God was an awesome God.
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They chanted, "L-O-V-E, L-O-V-E, L-O-V-E," and strummed guitars as police officers kept a watchful eye.
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But when Ms. Kelly strummed a guitar at her bedside, the woman sat up in bed, lifted her arms and began to move rhythmically.
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During a warm-up for the first official run of Advanced LIGO — the pinnacle of this half-century odyssesy — a gravitational wave strummed the instrument.
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One of his first initiatives was writing a book called "How to Play the Guitar Better Than Me." Few have sung and strummed more prolifically.
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Her debut EP for Jagjaguwar, last year's Clever Disguise, was built around strummed acoustic guitar, with glitches and fizzing synths interjecting and lapping over each other.
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Seconds after the audience's explosive applause broke out, Yorke strummed the opening chords to "Fake Plastic Trees", lending a monumental evening the impassioned finale it deserved.
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Of their rock predecessors, they rather remind me of early R.E.M., whose strummed jangle and verbal inscrutability similarly conjured an immersive, half-remembered pastoral Southern dreamworld.
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In June 2014, the two surprised fans at the Monash Children's Hospital in Australia with a mini-concert where Urban strummed his guitar while singing with Kidman.
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And that's just the tip of a vast iceberg that strummed and plucked what Martin has been crafting from wire and wood since before the Civil War.
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During another song, the poet recalls a sweet serenade, as orchestral rippling evokes a strummed guitar, until the final darkly poignant vocal phrases, suffused with weeping regret.
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None of them paid any attention as Rahiem Taylor strummed his bass guitar and his twin brother, Amiri, tried to reattach the strap to his acoustic guitar.
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After she strummed a few of her tunes on the ukulele, the pair sang her first hit song, "Ocean Eyes," which Eilish said she recorded at 13.
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Her band, a clunky, jangly electric addendum to her strummed acoustic guitar, establishes a similarly mellow, unobtrusive coffeehouse-folk sound, designed to draw attention to her lyrics.
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For good or ill, Aimee Mann has earned a stellar reputation as a purveyor of introspective, softly-strummed acoustic ballads that will make you reflect and possibly weep.
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Unfortunately I hadn't brought a guitar amp along, so I set up shop and started playing a drumbeat from my laptop, then strummed along at a whisper's volume.
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This means if the guitar is strummed, it should sound different if you're standing in front of or behind it, and if you're facing it or turned away.
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Like her past work, the instrumentals are built around idiosyncratic and absurdist sound design—drum hits can evoke spiked cans of Orange Crush, strummed Slinkys, or stretching Neoprene.
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The elements of children's music — plinking xylophones, strummed ukulele, singsong taunts — appropriately situate these dramas in the realm of childhood fantasy, where grandiosity, absurdity, and terror coexist naturally.
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Tapping his black Vans slip-ons on the soiled carpet, he strummed his way through a haunting progression — familiar, in a subliminal way, to any member of his generation.
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After making his fifth, which put the Gophers up by 59-43 with under 12 minutes left, the freshman Gabe Kalscheur, backpedaling, strummed his fingers as if playing guitar.
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Otherwise, several stylistic experiments stretching from white soul to Irish folk fail to mitigate his reliance on pealing waves of strummed acoustic guitar as a token of moral authority.
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TWENTY-FIVE years ago, on August 18th 1991, four Mancunian lads plugged in their instruments at the Boardwalk nightclub, and strummed away to an audience of barely a dozen people.
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The blastbeat drumming of Sonny Patten and the quickly strummed octave chords of guitarist Kelvin Mace help to propel the urgent screamed vocals of singers Natty Peterkin and Nate Revell.
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This is the band in its comfort zone, working with easy flair: The song has an almost processional tempo, with a mix of sun-streaked synths and strummed acoustic guitars.
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Yohji Yamamoto's Victorian sportswear — suiting, athletic and otherwise, ruffled and ruched with taffeta, twisted into elegance — set to guitar tunes sung and strummed by the designer, had a singular charm.
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The trio closed the early set the first night with "Do Re Mi Fa Sol," Mr. Hekselman whistling the tune's lullaby melody as he strummed a warbling, two-chord progression.
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Blackstock, who is the former stepson of Reba McEntire and music manager of Blake Shelton, remained on stage and strummed his guitar as she finished her performance, occasionally bursting into laughter.
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Back at the house, the guys were having a mini Chad funeral, scattering leftover protein powder like ashes to the wind while James T. softly strummed the guitar in the background.
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A MINUS Soccer Mommy: Clean (Fat Possum) Sophie Allison's melancholy drags less and charms more than teen-alt's indie-strummed norm, and not only that—it's fortified by tastier guitar parts.
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This album only perks up on the lighter, sparser "Spring," a dizzy, infatuated ballad with a tropicalia melody, on which strummed guitars and sparkling keyboards entwine to conjure a crisp daze.
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That's followed up by "Crying," boasting Kyp's Prince-like falsetto and a spry guitar riff that is so funky, it sounds like it could've been strummed by James Brown's axeman, Catfish Collins.
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BENGALURU, July 21 (Reuters) - An Indian musician who strummed a guitar during brain surgery to treat painful muscle spasms in his hand says he hopes to release his first album next year.
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"In the case of an impeachment trial, the emotions of the American people would be strummed, as a guitar, with every newscast and each edition of the daily paper," Mr. Biden warned.
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He strummed the opening chords to "The Way You Look Tonight," a song that appeared on her 1993 album, "Close as Pages in a Book," a collection of songs by Dorothy Fields.
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The tune is a waltz, set in King Princess's huskier lower range; strummed acoustic guitar and simulated vibraphone make the song hover and sway like K.D. Lang looking back to Patsy Cline.
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Although the grooves ride the Peulh variant of the strummed and plucked ngoni lute, they come into their own when a one-stringed violin the Peulhs call a soku echoes the vocal line.
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The couple chose to eschew the traditional string quartet for sweet sounds of Skrillex, and updated the classic (read: super boring) organ bridal processional with guitar strummed by Rolling Stones member Ronnie Wood.
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The rhythmic foundation is an electronic take on Kuti's Afrobeat; along the way it adds handclaps, strummed and plucked strings, clattering cowbells, synthesizer blips and more women's voices, like a movement gathering momentum.
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The album, too, sounds generalized, as only an album including the frantically strummed "Rockin' Around," the horn-augmented shuffle of "Hometown Blues," and the giddy power riffage on "Strangered in the Night" can.
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The constantly strummed rhythm guitar and spiky keyboard octave jumps in "I Used To"; the chickenscratch solos on "Change Yr Mind"; the bleary guitar frizz that pervades the whole record — such amusing facsimile!
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Her strummed country-folk band unfolds in weird directions, revealing miniature pocket orchestras and pop-up choirs before reassembling into a different ensemble altogether, foregrounding strings or Hawaiian guitar, cogs whirring, gears flying.
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It was a barrage that paused for a breather with an older song, "Bees," which has a slow-strummed, zitherlike sample and long-breathed vocals (although the lyrics are about bees on the attack).
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Sitting at a white grand piano covered in feathers made to look like angel wings, the star played while singing the powerful lyrics of her album's title track while Mark Ronson strummed a guitar.
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Once things had settled down, the family appears to have enjoyed a lovely dinner and "to cap it off" Hashian's mother performed a Polynesian hula as The Rock's mom strummed the ukulele and sang.
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A musician sang and strummed an acoustic guitar for the mostly secular fans of a leftist candidate, while supporters of Ennahda, an Islamist party, marched by waving flags and chanting their own candidate's name.
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While avoiding overtly electronic elements, these songs are beneficiaries of modern production technique; the thundering drums, chilly ostinato violin and thick layers of hollow strummed guitar all merge synthetically, yet with an eerie, windswept quality.
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Madonna, who first announced the intimate acoustic concert on social media Friday, was surrounded by hundreds of fans as she strummed her guitar next to 11-year-old son David and her guitarist Monte Pittman.
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By the time Hoppus is reminiscing about being "forgotten young suburbia / loose on the streets of California" over a strummed bassline, leading into one of Barker's canned beats, it's difficult not to buy in entirely.
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Thanks to the folk melodies and strummed acoustic guitars — not to mention the vast scale of the thing — Father of the Bride codes as more conventionally expressive: the same boy now speaks from the heart.
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On a chair set up next to the toilet and in front of the shower, Urban, 50, wore a headset as he strummed on an electric banjo that appeared to be hooked up to recording equipment.
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"Shut Up Kiss Me," strummed hard on an electric guitar and sung with a playful yip in the phrasing, is desperately clingy: "Stop pretending I'm not there/When it's clear I'm not going anywhere," she insists.
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LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Elvis impersonators strummed guitars and pink Cadillacs waited to ferry couples to the city's wedding chapels along the storied Las Vegas Strip, but business was slow after Sunday's mass shooting, several owners said.
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Along the crowded avenue, the sound systems boomed, floats of musicians strummed the small 10-string guitar called the cuatro, a marcher in a giant frog costume embodying the coqui, Puerto Rico's unofficial mascot, drew cheers.
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Closing track "Reduced Possibility: Endangered Determinism" keeps the LP's fast pace and chaotic energy going to the very end before letting everything fall away, leaving only lightly strummed guitars and choral vocals to finish the album.
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"Blossom (Wasting All My Time)," a song about "wondering if you really love me" and finding someone better, starts and ends with a strummed guitar, but opens out depths of bass and reverberation along the way.
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Wearing a t-shirt and holding a guitar, which he strummed while also singing, he used the word "baby" a lot and suggested in his lyrics that he was drawn to the song's subject due to magnetism.
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I like it when people put their own stamp on covers so in all seriousness I think the instrumentation here, especially the fast-strummed guitar which has Franz Ferdinand written all over it, is very good. Congrats.
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After an interlude — a sweet rendition of "Lazy River," sung and strummed on ukuleles by Ms. Dorrance and Ms. Davis — Mr. Irwin unveiled his "Harlequin and Pantalone," a comedic tour de force for the dancer Warren Craft.
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A classical guitarist strummed selections by Fernando Sor and Mauro Giuliani but transitioned to the Beatles' "In My Life" as groomsmen in blue suits and bridesmaids in light blush dresses and, finally, Ms. Conger walked down the aisle.
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Melding her voice into the keyboard shimmer on "The Body is a Blade," shrinking her voice to a hushed whisper on "Till Death" to suit the strummed gravitas, she feels the electric energy sputtering deep in her bones.
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But even before forming the Sons of Hawaii, Mr. Kamae had established a reputation for his head-turning proficiency on ukulele, a four-stringed instrument previously relegated to basic strummed accompaniment (or, on the mainland, exotic novelty purposes).
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As the performers strummed lean Mexican mini-guitars called jaranas and stomped their feet on a flattened rehearsal table (a stand-in for the bespoke tarima that will be used in performances), they also reached some dramatic epiphanies.
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This music is defined by the creaky, dust-spattered sound of her acoustic guitar and/or cleanly trebly electric, strummed or plucked, as a token of expressionist sincerity and a way to sound homemade, if not exactly lo-fi.
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Below is the the premiere of the video for "Sunrise Sunset," a spectral, slip of a song—a uke soflty strummed, percussion like the clippity-clop hoof-falls of a tiny pony, someone murmuring "It's all right," inches from your lobe.
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Yet it would seem that he does regard physicals as special, because nowhere else does the music feature songs end-to-end instead of sucking you in with a handful and then dematerializing into strummed or noodled jams with vocal accoutrements.
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Amid a backdrop of strummed guitars and ukuleles and plucked banjos, Emily Casey ran a bow across a musical saw to make wobbly tones fit for a '24s horror movie while Tina Muñoz Pandya explored the buttons on an accordion.
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Schlosberg's scoring—whistling tones of bowed vibraphone and cymbals, the harplike sound of strummed piano strings, the slide of a shot glass on an electric guitar—put a modernist frame around the action, although the substance of Donizetti's score came through.
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Barely produced, too—quiet g-b-d touched by occasional piano riffs or organ colors, with a few numbers just strummed-and-sung in a voice I never thought I'd say was going because it was already gone when it got here.
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The song feels private, as though it should only exist between the walls of a young woman's bedroom, with its unembellished vocals, spare piano phrases and simply strummed guitar, all of which swell like feelings in your chest over the song's duration.
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These music superstars sang and strummed their hearts out on the way to worldwide fame and untold fortune — only to fail to protect their portfolios and pass them safely on to heirs by neglecting to draw up a last will and testament.
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It's a function of the related lo-fi illusion, the impression that these turbulent, punkoid spurts, airy, strummed confessionals, and squelchy, through-composed amalgams of both were stitched together by hand, that she's sharing something private with you (and you alone, dear listener!).
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Chord progressions that seem to be built for vocal interventions go unbothered—take the "Strangers"-like rise at the top of the chorus—and Goldstein's vocals are given no superiority in the mix over strummed acoustic guitars, soft slides, or muffled horns.
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At festivals and venues around the world, he turns bass music into a supremely musical affair; electric guitars strummed by guest artists like guitarist Andrew Block, often collide with jazzy trumpet croons from Russ Liquid, who resides on the artist's Lowtemp label.
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But on Wednesday at the Miller Theater at Columbia University, Yarn/Wire presented the premiere of "Material" by Michael Gordon, who came up with an uncommonly elegant and visually mesmerizing arrangement: a single piano, played, plucked, strummed and struck by eight hands.
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In the song's second verse, a guy named Craig says "Maybe see you later" to Ms. Kline, and she lets you hear how that made her heart stop and then soar over furiously strummed guitar chords that downshift for a short reverie.
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After dusk, the members of the court gathered on the top deck to sip beer under a mesmerizing night sky, singing along as Rubens Barros, 38, the boat's chief law clerk, strummed a guitar to songs like "Sina," by the Brazilian composer Djavan.
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She plays raucous, untamed lead guitar in "Charity" and "Help Your Self"; in "City Looks Pretty," a song about post-tour letdown, she and the guitarist Dan Luscombe stack up frantic, droning strummed guitars that telegraph both nervous energy and homebound stasis.
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While her early, softly strummed guitar songs were often gorgeous despite their brokenness, "Remind Me Tomorrow," an album of hope, intimacy and perseverance, has jagged edges and a brooding swagger, built around droning synths and a propulsive rhythm section of studio musicians.
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Sunflower Bean is a guitar-bass-drums trio that makes hand-played music, and its debut album, "Human Ceremony" (Fat Possum), moves along briskly and even impatiently with circular picking patterns, transparent strummed chords and or fuzz-toned riffs behind Julia Cumming's airy voice.
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During her set, the 47-year-old pop star, who wore a plunging black Yanina Couture gown with white floral applique, invited Shelton, 40, on stage to belt out their duet, "Go Ahead and Break My Heart," as the country crooner strummed his guitar.
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"Lovely Rita" lacks its solo at this early juncture—Martin would complete the song by playing a honky-tonk piano riff a month later on March 21—but the earnestly strummed acoustic guitars coupled with McCartney's minor key piano vamp are present on the outro.
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The disparate sonic experiments of the instrumental "Horse" are a mess of pianos and synths and hastily strummed guitars, chopped into pieces and hurled into one another like a TRICK cut played in four locations at once—a wild exaggeration of Cuomo's Abbey Road theory.
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And then, weirdest of all, there was that time Thom Yorke plopped himself down under a gazebo in someone's garden for the Queen's 90th birthday, while he strummed a few lowkey classics on his acoustic guitar like your uni boyfriend at a park picnic.
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The find on "Hitchhiker" is "Give Me Strength," the song of a "lonely man" desperate to find consolation: "Give me strength to move along/Give me strength to realize she's gone," he sings over steadfast strummed guitar chords, and "gone" turns into a wordless moan.
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These 11 other music superstars also sang or strummed their hearts out on the way to worldwide fame and untold fortune — only to fail to protect their portfolios and pass them safely on to heirs by neglecting to draw up a last will and testament.
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Strong melodies are present throughout—all three Goon Sax members are able pop writers—but this is an indie rock record where bass and drums convey the strongest melodies, and the guitar chords don't matter as long as they are strummed with power and feeling.
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Here's a look at 11 music superstars sang or strummed their hearts out on the way to worldwide fame and untold fortune — only to fail to protect their portfolios and pass them safely on to heirs by neglecting to draw up a last will and testament.
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Singing festive jingles like "Holly Jolly Christmas," the five-time Voice champion and coach strummed his guitar for an audience that included Stefani's father Dennis and her kids Kingston, 10, Zuma, 8, and two-year-old Apollo, who were all dressed in matching red plaid button-downs.
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But, when you listen to Bevan's solo stuff, particularly her early work, there are elements of baroque pop, gently strummed guitar, click-clacking percussion and a dreamlike quality anchored to her breathy voice that sound worlds apart from the music she tailors to fit other acts.
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Basically, that means that using this technique, if you were watching a YouTube video of someone playing guitar and it zoomed in tight on the fretboard, you could theoretically use your mouse to drag across the strings and watch them vibrate as if you'd strummed them in real life.
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Over folky guitar chords (sampled not strummed) and later banjo and drums, Grimes dips into her lower register and admits to both her own temptations with drugs — "I did everything/More lines on the mirror than a sonnet" — and the grim results she has seen in her generation.
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There's quietly strummed ghost stories like "Sorrow," but there's also lumbering, feedback-laden document of existential distress like "Where Is My Light," which shares as much in common with doom metal and slowcore as it does with the traditions of solemn indie rock songwriting with which Jones is most often associated.
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Anyone who puts "astral" in a song title should be aware of Van Morrison's "Astral Weeks," and Valerie June's music certainly is; the core is a gently strummed acoustic guitar, with keyboard tones and muted horns hovering nearby as a snare drum calmly marches the listener toward a benevolent lesson.
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She started to introduce her next song, then just said, "Fuck it," and strummed a few chords—the opening to the Prince-penned portrait of romantic despair "Nothing Compares 2 U," which was a chart-topping hit for Sinéad O'Connor three years before Phair's storied debut Exile In Guyville hit stores.
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As a first-time restaurateur, he didn't have the metrics or history to pitch the usual circuit of restaurant investors, but after months of cold emailing, meeting up with former colleagues over coffee, and conducting mini-tastings for interested parties, he finally strummed up enough support for a $500K round.
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" The crowd clapped along as Martin strummed on his guitar and sang the chorus of, "From Miami, we are sending love to Houston / We are praying that you make it through the rain / I know nothing's gonna break the will of Houston / Oh, how we can't wait to go down there again.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads SANTA MONICA — The ambience of a block party pervaded last weekend's 13th Annual Santa Monica Airport ArtWalk as the all-female mariachi band Las Colibrí strummed their guitars, hungry art goers queued up at numerous food trucks, and kids learned how to make jewelry out of upcycled office supplies.
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But what would the "fantastic style" of the time be without a few outlandish quirks, as when the string players put down their bows and strummed along with the bass-baritone Peter Becker, lurking in the background and proclaiming the late hour, in a movement of Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber's serenade "The Night Watchman"?
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Last August, Oprah Winfrey and Gayle King were photographed sunbathing aboard the Rising Sun near Ibiza, along with the record producer Jimmy Iovine and Bob Iger, chief executive of the Walt Disney Co. On another trip, Bruce Springsteen was shooting hoops on the ship's full-size basketball court, while Tom Hanks strummed a guitar, friends said.
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To accentuate the prettiness on the current album, they slow down the tempos, sing more breathily, foreground the painstakingly strummed or plucked acoustic riffs, and generally dilute each element until they attenuate the wires running through the machine, and the whole thing unravels into a pile of gears,poles,snapped strings, and smaller contraptions themselves unraveling.
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The self-branded "House of Stoush" is where the Beatles left swathes of teenage girls—and Molly Meldrum—in hysterics in 1964; where Bon Scott and AC/DC strummed and punched their way through the pub rocking baby boomers in 1974, and where punk heavyweight, Patti Smith recently played her final Melbourne show alongside hometown hero Courtney Barnett.
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Where someone like Frank Sinatra (or his Brazilian counterpart Johnny Alf) would use a carefully-controlled breathing style to boost the rich, sonorous qualities of his voice while downplaying the sharper "S" and "T" sounds, Gilberto wielded the microphone like a flashlight in the dark, emphasizing the shape and texture of the space around him as he strummed softly to the beat.
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Between the host's quick descriptions of the technology's three basic principles, Mr. Austwick strummed a guitar and sang: Bitcoin is blockchain's babyTransactions, trading, taking care of business on the blockchainAll my friends are computers and we're working together on the blockchain While the ditty made the digital ledger sound almost cute, Civil, with its reliance on cryptocurrency, is not without risks.
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But these days, their impact on mainstream rock is more profoundly felt through apocalyptic power ballads like "Black Hole Sun" and "Blow Up the Outside World," or acoustic-strummed salvos like "Pretty Noose" and "Burden In My Hand"—songs whose upset-stomach stew of pop accessibility and pure anxiety would eventually get diluted and curdled into the angst-ridden bro-rock of Nickelback, Staind, et al.
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Daubing light, smooth, soaringly poised pop sheen on light, jaunty, strummed/plucked country guitar hooks, downplaying the effortlessness of her bafflingly catchy melodies, Clark sings as plainly and directly as can be while adding a bubblegum flavor to many of the best songs with nothing but textured acoustic guitar and electric banjo, plus a slinky rollerdisco keyboard in "Daughter" that somehow sounds perfectly natural.
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Anybody who's listened to the radio during the past year and inadvertently (or otherwise) developed a taste for the bland, luscious, sensitive EDM permutation known as tropical house will instantly delight upon hearing this album, as will anybody who loved the sexy upbeat songs on Justin Bieber's Purpose but yawned and/or groaned when he strummed an acoustic confessional or spouted a didactic ballad.
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The sharpest songs focus on beleaguered individuals whose grievances are somehow emblematic: "Halls of Sarah," whose protagonist/victim suffers all the indignities male artists have inflicted upon female muses, which eventually inspires Case to overdub her own wordless humming into a makeshift choir; or "Last Lion of Albion," about the last member of a dying breed, as the marching drums and frantically strummed acoustic guitars mimic the lion's nobility and desperation.
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Album opener "Burn the Witch" bears a striking resemblance to the space age strut of OK Computer, but this is achieved not with electric guitars, but through a section of violins playing spiccato and col legno—techniques where different parts of the bow are bounced off the strings instead of run across them—creating the effect of strummed guitars over the fuzzed out bass notes and electronic drums that comprise the rhythm section.
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Chris Bailoni and Clay Frankel take the most heart-skipping synth melodies from Low Life-era New Order, the most charmingly lazy guitar chords that The Band ever strummed, and the crack in your voice that happens when you've been talking too long at a crowded bar, and distill them into an actual sound—one that seems to be perpetually on the verge of keeling over, even on the level of each individual synth note.
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The Ex: 27 Passports (Ex) Compared at various junctures to both the Crass and Einstürzende Neubaten, these vintage-1979 quasi-anarchist Dutch Anglophones have released dozens of albums I've never heard, so to compensate I power-streamed their 2009 30 compilation and concluded that while industrial and "world" sonics do both emerge, the band's enduring fondness for the strummed drone evokes nothing as much as the Fall without Mark E. Smith—that is, a Fall who aren't the Fall at all.
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The strength of her soon-to-be nine album strong discography hinges on Harvey's ability to tap and harness her emotions in song—from her earlier material like the searing "Rub 'Till It Bleeds," to the softly strummed "The Desperate Kingdom of Love" (from 2004's Uh Huh Her, an LP on which she played all the instruments), to the often brittle brilliance of 2011's Let England Shake (for which she won her second Mercury Music Prize—the only artist to do so).
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