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...The absence of extended instrumental solos might cause bebop purists to decry this as pop music, but Laufey belongs to the same tradition that allows space for Astrud Gilberto, Melody Gardot and Keely Smith...
...Smith adds the main melody with her vocals, a technically complex but unfussily accomplished act of singing....
...with some throwaway manèges, entrechats, chaînés and double tours, but the take-home routines are Bausch’s trademark line-dances synced to the easy-listening playlist: Franz Lehár, Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith...
...Google and Universal Music Group are in talks to license artists’ melodies and voices for songs generated by artificial intelligence, four people familiar with the talks have told the Financial Times....
...As a child, “we were singing in harmony on the spot, picking up melodies really quickly. [Music was] just everywhere,” she tells me in the stark light of the next day....
...On “Walls”, Lydon seems to present personal and political barriers as a loving embrace, underpinned by tender guitar melodies....
...Thirty years ago, Suede stalked the dingy venues of Camden like a “snarling, growling rock beast”, in the smitten words of Melody Maker....
...His 2008 album 808s and Heartbreak did indeed break ground in hip-hop with its emotive melodies and computerised singing....
...Saxophonist Walter Smith III and guitarist Matthew Stevens are high-profile sidemen with bands of their own....
...[‘PSYCHOS’ BY JENNY LEWIS PLAYING] Lilah Raptopoulos “Psychos” actually started out as another song with a completely different melody and lyrics. Jenny didn’t like it....
...Fortunately, the FT’s Alan Smith, head of visual and data journalism, turned US yield curves into notes and melodies....
...The show’s editor is Jess Smith. Additional help by Peter Barber, Gavin Kallmann and Michael Bruning. The show’s theme song is by Metaphor Music. The FT’s global head of audio is Cheryl Brumley....
...Reggae was “kind of monotonous” and “black music being prostituted”, Melody Maker quoted Deep Purple and the Edgar Broughton Band as saying....
...It’s a history of black women musicians, from Aretha Franklin to Bessie Smith to Beyoncé, and shows how they’ve informed intellectual life and the black female sound.”...
...It combines the textures and tempos of ‘80s punk rock with the melodies of pop. It was big in the early 2000s, and now it’s back....
...Their rivals for top spot include the reactivated Abba with “Little Things” (★★☆☆☆ ), a syrupy ditty about a “lovely Christmas morning” with music-box melodies, a benevolent Santa, a curious hint of a bit...
...mix of power chords, fast solos, riffs and brooding acoustic melodies....
...The low-slung guitar melody on final track “Better If You Don’t” recalls further vintage 1980s influences, including Low-Life-era New Order....
...Audiences are invited to play the newly imagined instruments, which form part of her “Melody of Certain Damage” series....
...Basslines ripple through these downbeat melodies like memories stirring. “I grew up in a two-bed flat with seven people,” he recalls in “We’re All Alone”....
...Those people can write good melodies and memorable lyrics....
...The album closes with “Epitaph”, an elegy for another school friend who died of heatstroke, Lupton’s words again set by Seaward to a melody with more than a hint of “Who Knows Where the Time Goes”....
...Like The Fall’s Mark E Smith, he has an ear for surreal slogans (“Panic behind the tills”, “Rows of stale marriage”)....
...A tinkling, gothic melody is energised by an urgent electronic beat, while Smith’s yelped vocal contrasts with Albarn’s plain voiceover....
...Smith and his bandmates — his brother Jordan Smith on bass, guitarist Joe Vickers, Danny Hull on synths, drummer Luke Irvin — follow the template faithfully, but bring it to life with an intensity of focus...
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