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...Yet at well over 20 songs once you count the bonus material, Don Juan feels cluttered; yet more collaborations, with Burna Boy and J Balvin, were announced, but it’s unclear when these will drop....
...Co-founders “J” and “T” turned out to be Josh Lloyd-Watson and Tom McFarland, originally pals from a west London public school....
...Smith adds the main melody with her vocals, a technically complex but unfussily accomplished act of singing....
...There’s a famous photo [by Andrew J Russell] of Promontory Summit, and the golden spike being driven in.”...
...Prepared by Malcolm J Merriweather, the Summer for the City Chorus was superb....
...It has a turn from reggaeton singer J Balvin. Other guests come from across the musical spectrum....
...The band sessions were honed by founder and frontman Conor J O’Brien in his home studio during the long pandemic restrictions....
...Haunted by snatches of melody from the miners, he starts to write, conjuring the play up before us on an empty stage....
...A multi-tracked Mary J Blige sings up a storm on “Spinnin’”, whose music is a well-judged mix of ornate orchestration and rhythmic discipline....
...It was of a piece with their music: primary-coloured, fizzing with melody and clearly part of the Welsh psychedelic tradition that has given us Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci and Super Furry Animals....
...A keyboard melody rings out, its emphatic punctuation matched by Barker’s proud exclamations....
...Colombian reggaeton star J Balvin asked fans earlier this month if he should delay Colores due to the coronavirus crisis. Justly, he chose not to....
...“I live a street life and I sing a melody,” he croons, but there is more going on than that....
...J. Strickland and Dezron Douglas add contemporary beats to modal swing....
...But the electronic aspect of Cunningham’s score sounded underwritten and overly abstract, a collection of loud digital hums and random flurries of oddball computer melodies....
...The group’s members consist of three rappers (RM, Suga, J-Hope) and four singers (Jin, Jimin, V, Jungkook)....
...Jayson Kerr Dobney, curator of the Met’s department of musical instruments, who co-organised the exhibition with Rock & Roll Hall of Fame curator Craig J....
...The strident delivery, vocal vibrato and circus organ accompaniment of the French-language “J’ai L’Cafard” is an authentic evocation of chanson....
...After a curiously limp, loose opening, “Animal” and “Brain of J.” provided fist-pumping punk intensity before “Even Flow” found Vedder growling a strained, brooding melody over a snorting hard-rock riff....
...In April this year, Colombian reggaeton superstar J Balvin strode onstage to join Beyoncé during her show-stopping set at the Coachella festival in California....
...AZD attempts renewal through a tenuous application to melody....
...The couplet, delivered over a stirring piano melody, is Father John Misty in a nutshell: clever, egotistic, epigrammatic, louche, unafraid to aim high....
...J-pop acts from Japan and K-pop acts from South Korea visit in search of followers....
...Samples of it have been used more than 50 times to date, including by Madonna, George Michael and LL Cool J. Most concern marginal existence or broken relationships, and a few, sexual predation....
...Supple beats helped: for a cerebral band Alt-J have a surprisingly strong groove going on....
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