"Nebula" features a carefully pulsing organ layered beneath breathy harmonies.
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That breathy introduction for Patti LuPone was kinda endearing, honestly.
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A breathy Ms. Lichty was often nigh impossible to understand.
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Her voice has a breathy fringe but a tenacious core.
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There were some breathy passages and slight signs of strain.
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Her singing is breathy and casual, and in moments, sweet.
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She can be brassy, tearful, sultry, gritty, breathy, sweet or furious.
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But you can hear Shipp's unpastorly advice in King's breathy, pleading inflections.
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" Those breathy words were delivered by Danny DeVito in the film "L.
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Occasionally, to demonstrate her words, she would burst into a breathy croon.
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Every single on "Thriller" was radio friendly and featured Jackson's breathy singing style.
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I used to sing very breathy intentionally thinking that was my singing voice.
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People whose voice has a breathy quality are more likely to reattempt suicide.
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Nicole Miglis sings with breathy desperation about a once-close relationship drifting apart.
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Her breathy vocals are perfect for "Hands to Myself," the ultimate seduction bop.
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The breakdowns are rhythmically similar, with both employing synthy beats and breathy falsettos.
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It was sweet and lilting, a little breathy but not in an annoying way.
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As the chorus builds, it sounds like a climax—breathy with a sweet release.
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Sometimes she supported her wandering voice with a breathy, billowing chord on the synthesizer.
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The menacing groundstrokes were back, likewise the breathy, rising shriek accompanying each monster return.
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Extended technique has grown into a sophisticated system for producing scratch tones and breathy whispers.
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Kennedy was criticized for being too rich, too beautiful or "too comically breathy," Brower said.
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Ms. Gevinson's breathy, bug-eyed weirdness, so distracting in other roles, is surprisingly effective here.
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And we are told, in Ms. Park's forceful, breathy voice, that the wakefulness is exhilarating.
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Her real voice is breathy like Samantha Jones's, but less fluctuant in pitch and volume.
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On "Separating," her breathy incantations fit snugly into the equation: somehow both fey and reassuring.
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They also favor breathy, atmospheric textures—like subtle reverb—which gives their music its haunting quality.
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He was young, American, gorgeous and wrote compelling songs delivered in a breathy, achingly vulnerable voice.
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When she talks about being pro-life, her green eyes warm and her voice grows breathy.
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Lyrically there are no wonky sexual come-ons or snarling rebuttals—just breathy admissions of affection.
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"Genesis" and "Oblivion," both draw from arpeggiated synthesizers, both overlaying that insistence with a breathy daydream.
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"I didn't even have time to think about it," she said in her breathy girlish voice.
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"You've read in history's pages the heroes of great fame," he sang, in a breathy brogue.
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His increased capacity for a soft, breathy, intimate, sugary loverboy whisper is just an added bonus.
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"When I Wasn't Watching" is breathy and introspective, with Moore's words coming across like a confessional.
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"You get breathy confessional head-voice moments building to a belty chest-voice climax," he added.
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The "Break Free" singer played Tracy Turnblad's dweeby sidekick Penny Pingleton with wide eyes and breathy wonder.
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Marilyn Monroe's breathy, intimate rendition of "Happy Birthday" has been lovingly emulated by many — including Kate Moss!
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Her face broke into a large smile, and her breathy voice filled with delight as she answered.
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For all its breathy warmth, Big Black Coat maintains its distance from listeners with sharp instrumental interludes.
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Quite deep and breathy, plus there's an echo effect on it which produces a soothing rustling sound.
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He has a heavy Scouse accent: his consonants are breathy, and his vowels are long and inquisitive.
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J.P. Julie Byrne's voice is low, breathy, peaceful and pillowy, ideal for the meditative ballads she writes.
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She sings in a breathy, tender whisper evocative of virtues like maternal caring and beaming altruistic compassion.
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When she dims the lights on the breathy bedroom romp "Invitation," it's like she's cooing into your ear.
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"I can get breathy if I have to lift things, so Susan steps in to help," he said.
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Instead, it's a triumphant, '90s-house-inflected pop confection, part breathy vocals and part spunky, spoken-word playfulness.
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The album—built on top of spare, frosty programmed drumbeats and breathy hooks—tantalized listeners of all stripes.
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He also recommends loosening the vocal cords, for a "breathy" effect similar to the voice of Paris Hilton.
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These women's ambitious, decade-spanning history is told in five parts, each made up of breathy, episodic chapters.
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His early A.S.M.R. videos, featuring finger flutters, mic-nibbling and breathy storytelling, began racking up millions of views.
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Wandering the hallways, one overhears a multitude of pitch-imperfect voices, ranging from breathy delight to bellowing sorrow.
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Khalid can do a lot with a little, and Halsey's breathy voice tends to find some strange nooks.
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Someone experiencing an orgasm can be barely perceptible in their breathy pleasure, and at other times, wildly theatrical.
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LG: I was actually hoping you would read it today, because you have a breathy, wild-weekend voice.
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Their call and response is hotness overload, where she goes breathy and he holds the baseline of the melody.
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That single was catchy largely because of the way Cabello carried the chorus with her breathy, ethereally pretty vocals.
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Her breathy delivery of the word "Maker's," cooed almost in a whisper, is not the typical rumination on alcohol.
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It's a breathy and quietly full-blooded cut of West Coast Americana, blending mellow blues-rock with folk mystery.
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"Wonder" is a glacially paced song, delivered in breathy whispers, exhaling into its chorus whenever it gets the chance.
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Players were often asked to abandon the standard twelve pitches: glissandos, microtones, whistling harmonics, and other breathy noises proliferated.
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Yaeji, a D.J. and singer-songwriter whose breathy, understated songs have garnered her a sizable following, will also appear.
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Its theme song is a polished cover of the 19893 version, sung by Faye Wong, the breathy Chinese superstar.
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The flutist reinforces the sense of psychological vulnerability with a nervous, breathy welter of sounds, including her own vocalizations.
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In retrospect that sensibility meshes perfectly with a pop approach where breathy vocals scraped against skeletal beats generate friction.
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Simultaneously faint and ornate, the album accrues light, feathery instruments to no end — strings, bilious keyboard swirl, breathy harmonies.
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On one hand, there were vast resources — interviews, articles, film footage — to help her perfect that breathy finishing-school accent.
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Parsed out, the joke is about Jughead, played by Cole Sprouse, launching into a breathy monologue about how he's weird.
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Monroe's breathy rendition of the birthday song has been broadcast repeatedly since, adding to the lore surrounding the screen icon.
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The breathy refrain of "Sexxxxxx," exhaled (I imagine) by a lady with ruby red lips, right near my left ear.
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It has a lot of the Sufjan trademarks: broken arpeggios, breathy vocals; it shimmers and yet is also deeply melancholic.
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J.P. It's all about the moment in "Faded Love," Tinashe's latest breathy variation on how to let desire conquer all.
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The song's sleek percussion evolves continuously, with singer Turid Solberg's breathy voice gliding gently over swelling synths and momentous, brassy vivacity.
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Rather than displaying her usual powerhouse pipes, Carey keeps it cool and breathy on the track, which is produced by Nineteen85.
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Did I mention she's as cute and winsome and breathy as ever, even if most of the Crawleys don't recognize her?
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Sadly, Monroe died less than three months later, but her dress (and breathy version of "Happy Birthday") will never be forgotten.
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They flow freely between interlocking melodies, allowing each player's voice space to lead, to follow, to join in the breathy arrangements.
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Midway through Thursday's performance, by the International Contemporary Ensemble, sustained-tone clouds mixed with breathy effects to create a hallucinatory impression.
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Though Cooper starts the song, Lady Gaga takes over for its exponential buildup, from throaty and breathy to full-scale belting.
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She stood onstage with her lips pulled back tightly in an excruciating wince, often repeating individual words in a breathy incantation.
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Elevated and sleek aesthetics, artful choreography, and dulcet breathy vocals come together in "Want" like a delicious and heady drug. 23.
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His songs are all about storytelling, remarkably unreliant on choruses, breathy and delicate, and even when he sings alone, he sounds choral.
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Jalbert's soft, breathy delivery continues unmoved while she and Wilson smudge the space between new wave, pub rock, and Pacific Northwest punk.
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It's a reminder of why we all fell in love with his voice in the first place; fast-paced, breathy, and dexterous.
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The whispered samples are breathy and the silences are breathless; but every crest and trough of the waveform are equally breath-taking.
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In the band, her voice — high and breathy, but far more determined than fragile — rode atop a rich wash of electric guitars.
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In the ad, breathy male voices discussed a listener contest in which "five lucky winners" would have Redskins cheerleaders wash their cars.
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Yet here she is, some 40 years later and 69 years old, deploying that same perplexed stare and breathy little-girl voice.
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Portman, a startling amalgam of cheekbones, sharp brows, and a thicket of root beer-colored hair, lets out a breathy, biting rebuke.
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" Another curious element in Lohan's speech are her "t's", which she pronounces in a particularly breathy way that seems like a "foreign affectation.
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Sonically, it's dance music with enough negative space to incorporate enormous thoughts, sung with clarity in the tone of breathy, elegant emotional release.
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Cottrill sang in her characteristically measured, breathy voice, and her lyrics were lost in the din of ticket-holders streaming into the venue.
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Breathy with a sweetness even when she's putting the plosives on "ping pong pussy," Safai sells the record like it's an organic lollipop.
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"Here she is, some 40 years later and 69 years old, deploying that same perplexed stare and breathy little-girl voice," he wrote.
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"Bad Kind of Butterflies," with a breathy vocal that tiptoes above furtive keyboards and deep bass abysses, is well aware of Billie Eilish.
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Malik, featherlight, sings the breathy hook and then yields to M.I.A. "Send me your money and I'll send you my song," she says.
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That said, her commitment to impersonating the breathy tenor of Jackie's voice exacts a price, at least initially coming across as stilted and distracting.
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With her "polygonal breasts" and breathy voice, it was hard for some critics to see her as representing more than a digitized sexual fantasy.
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Like a synth of nostalgia, there's a button for that immediately recognizable breathy beatbox, a "Killer Tofu" riff, and the superhero-summoning Quail Call.
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Otherwise, she's grown into her skeletal synthpop sound, as her clear, unaffected singing suits these clickity drum machines and shiny keyboards and breathy overdubs.
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The song, which oozes with the influence of her mentor, the late Prince, kicks off with a breathy moan—and that's just the beginning.
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She's not in the declarative, Everywoman anthem mode of "Girl on Fire" or "No One"; she's breathy and almost breathless, reveling in the subjunctive.
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The Polonaise exuded vitality in its outer sections, but between them settled into an easy, breathy lilt that brought the dance vividly to life.
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It begins in near-silence, with faint bass-drum rolls, a tremor of gong, fingernail scratches on drumskins, and breathy noises from the strings.
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Husky but not a smoker's hack, deep but not masculine, breathy but not gaspy, a trace of New York but not Queens, New York.
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The verses that follow a breathy declaration of wanting to live young, wild, and free underscore parts of The Carters relationship we'd heard elsewhere.
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For all the existential questions, Claudio is sensual in her approach, with breathy tracks that invade your personal space in all the right ways.
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"How is your novel?" she would ask, giving the word a breathy pronunciation that evoked a Southern belle suffering an attack of the vapors.
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Postscript To conjure Jean Stein you must first imagine the voice — a soft and breathy near-whisper, by turns merry or full of steel.
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In the video, as she reveals her magnificent pole-dancing, her breathy beg of "Didn't I do it for you?" hurts all the more.
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It's no easy feat making an LP this bare-bones compelling, but it works due to the center staging of Pratt's breathy, lilting vocals.
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Dedication furthers this project, but the forms have changed: breathy singing and dimly lit electronic atmosphere are ultimately more familiar devices for depicting interiority.
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Vox's Caroline Framke calls this potentially strange mashup "a weirdly perfect fit for Gomez's breathy pop," and Talking Heads' David Byrne loved it too.
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I like the pairing in the production of sharp finger snaps and beeping video-game inspired samples with a soft melody and the breathy vocals.
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Ana Wasn't Told About This Game"Are you just going to stand there gawking?" she says in her breathy voice while standing in her lingerie.
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She has to be breathy and seductive, but is Eddie any less constrained by the expectations of the hard-bitten private eye role he's playing?
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Among the main components were skittish tapping sounds, breathy scratch tones and rapid crescendos on single notes that whipped through the room at unpredictable intervals.
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And, armed with this knowledge, I would be able to predict if my sleep would be interrupted by the endless breathy hoots of these birds.
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She's also a hopeless romantic, who speaks in breathy uptalk and fails to notice a parade of red flags flapping around her latest love interest.
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But Armatrading is so unlike a wispy North American singer-songwriter—think Sarah McLachlan and her breathy femininity—that the song takes on a backbone.
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Now and then, Mr. Rothenberg sent volleys of jazzy riffs skyward, but more often the group produced mildly dissonant chords, rhythmic shudders and breathy whispers.
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It turned out she was great, with a breathy voice that was heard by Stuart Matthewman and Paul Denman, playing in a band called Pride.
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Although she contorts her voice to match each mood, alternately rousing, breathy, or conversational, enunciating lyrics, she often sounds impatient about getting the words out.
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It can be silky, breathy or cutting, swooping through long melismas or jabbing out short R&B phrases; it's always supple and airborne, never forced.
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"But day to day, if someone meets me, they'll think I have this breathy, airy, airhead voice," she told the industry publication Backstage in 2001.
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Hosted by a man who goes by Harris, these meandering meditations on banal subjects (usually with a scientific bent) are spoken entirely in breathy murmurs.
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" Big Balloon is a classically twitchy art-rock; breathy on "Hiccup," fast-paced and earnest on "Baskin'" before launching into the swelling ballad-esque "Achameleon.
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The Talking Heads' pulsing backbeat is a weirdly perfect fit for Gomez's breathy pop, making for one of the catchiest songs I've commuted to in months.
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Rising out of a muffled, ominously churning intro, the track's anxious funk gets a lot of its character from percussive clicking and a breathy vocoder figure.
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Canadian composer and frequent Tim Hecker collaborator Kara-Lis Coverdale followed with a New Age-leaning performance full of breathy vocal samples, Eastern scales, and strings.
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"The Phillies suck," Christie barks, with a tone of breathy disbelieving faux-umbrage that is perfectly sports radio and which does little to conceal his delight.
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They're soft, restrained and breathy, transporting you onto that rooftop, which sounds like a much sexier place in song than it probably is in real life.
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A Fiverr staff member cued up a music video by Jean's first student, Antonia Marquee, a pop singer with a breathy voice and Elmo-red hair.
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It's a breathy and dramatic piece with a choppy beat behind it and, as ever, it pushes his vocals right to the top of the mix.
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It's skittering and frenetic with a barrage of tones, like a coked-out night in Tokyo or Times Square, but it too recedes to breathy ambience.
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She brought glint and terror to moments when her fears took hold, and was even more chilling when she unfurled her scheming thoughts in breathy utterances.
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Its propulsive images of slithering octopuses and singing migrants imagine a community of bodies on the move, while Ms. Prouvost whispers in her signature breathy Franglais.
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Although the contrast between her breathy singing and the stark pitched percussion effects could sound unsettling, applied to these happy love songs, it's comforting and delightful.
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He's looking forward to that, when his voice starts to get breathy and broken like Judy Garland's when she sings "Over the Rainbow" at Carnegie Hall.
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The hooks lie in the repetition of the basslines, the breathy yearning of Robyn's voice, the studied rhythmic awkwardness meant to contrast with the electronic polish.
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Allison's breathy soprano guides us through the album's twists and turns, uniting the gleaming, honest world conjured by the lyrics with the aesthetic grounding of the sound.
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There were two distinct JTs: Albert's, who had long-winded conversations on the phone in a breathy voice, and Knoop's, prone to flings but not much talking.
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His breathy, soulful voice, featured in his debut single "Ink In My Veins" (told you the guy liked tattoos!) almost has a John Mayer vibe to it.
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It's slow, breathy, naked, sexy sex, the kind that you would expect in prestige TV about the difficult dating lives of attractive New Yorkers in their 20s.
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He describes how, when you slow it down and lean in closer, the bassline is actually a breathy male vocal that unfurls itself to mirror an orgasm.
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Based on dim recollections of their Virgin debut, I wasn't surprised to learn the singers still can't sing, their breathy keen and outraged croak oddly indistinguishable sometimes.
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Parker Posey, who keeps popping up randomly as a family friend, is breathy and mannered in a way that suggests a much wackier, broader, more forceful film.
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I'll never forget the dreamlike production of Salvatore Sciarrino's "Luci Mie Traditrici" presented in 2001, a staging of veiled, enigmatic beauty to match the flickering, breathy score.
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As poets, they complement each other: their writing is disarmingly earnest, but Kay's delivery is breathy and awestruck, whereas Kaye works the crowd like a standup comedian.
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"To know each other better/Put your love all over me," she coos in "Invitation," the breathy, Janet Jackson-meets-Philip Glass enticement that opens the album.
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And here is a larger problem of poetic translation: How do you capture a language as floral and breathy as Farsi without access to its unique sounds?
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The music swelled and dipped, swelled again and then waned, until the instruments stopped and only a few voices were left singing unintelligible words, breathy and prayerful.
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The brief teaser features Fanning's breathy rendition of "Dancing on My Own" by Robyn and promises more music from Ellie Goulding, Ariana Grande, Katy Perry and others.
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Although their attraction to loud, emotional belting ruins the effect a little, they've crafted their replica with care, and anyway they can also sing with fetchingly breathy reticence.
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Music—at the moment, the breathy intro to Jethro Tull's "Cross-Eyed Mary"—is piped in constantly to stop the mice from being spooked by any loud noises.
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For decades serious musicians have mocked it as the discordant, breathy, vulgar voice of peasants, clowns and fairground hucksters: an endlessly jovial or sentimental repertoire of folksy tunes.
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The drones undulate in slow motion beneath rippling dark folk chord progressions, and her black-eyed, breathy vocals whisper wine-stained secrets about sex, death, love, and flesh.
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While the human counterpart in the film becomes dependent on his AI operating system, voiced by the breathy Scarlett Johansson, there's no hidden evil agenda of the machine.
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With its Bridget Jones-esque torturous date night prep juxtaposed against a breathy R&B number, the song let us into the show's winking participation in patriarchal bullshit.
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Gomez can't belt the high notes like many of her peers, but "Hands to Myself" illustrates how her feathery swoons and breathy whispers can be just as effective.
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Three descending chords, repeating in slow motion, cradle her breathy, solitary voice; meanwhile, in the near distance, there are mysterious whooshes and crashes, and an occasional tolling guitar.
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And wait, now that we're on the subject... Related Post "Small Talk" also kind of has the same pacing as Swift's "Dress," as well as the breathy delivery.
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The beats, whose soft keyboards and electronic strings swoop and intersect at odd angles, match her soprano, more feathery than ever, now that she's accentuating her breathy lower register.
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The pop star caused a frenzy among fans on the last day of 2017, teasing on Instagram a quick preview of breathy vocals presumably lifted from an upcoming song.
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Lifted from her third album, Lovers Know (out now via Saddle Creek), "Velveteen" is just the right side of breathy—"Baby go easy on me"—Laura exhales, lovelorn, sexy.
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Its muted, elegantly disintegrating chords are an invitation to commiserate, and Nadler's honey-sweetened wisp of a voice beckons you close, to make sure you catch every breathy syllable.
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Even his poor wife Janey-E Jones (the wonderful Naomi Watts) is limited to using an impossibly breathy voice or scolding her husband and those who mean him harm.
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The beats abound with whooshing keyboards, breathy vocoders, slick rhythm guitars, and splashes of electronic color as lurid as the pink clouds and blue sky on the album cover.
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During one solo, the dancer Bostjan Antoncic crouched in place multiple times, then spun like a dervish, against breathy long notes and pizzicato flashes from the violinist Igor Semenoff.
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But even in another language, the vocal melodrama would indicate similar sentiments, because even as ballad singing goes, the breathy, tortured, lovelorn displays of narcissistic emotion here represent a nadir.
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"See you next year," Grande captioned the video, which features the "Into You" singer cooing what sounds like "You can feel it, feel it" over humming, chimes, and breathy harmonies.
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In the segment, Jiminy Glick, a breathy caricature of a hapless TV host, grills Drake on his popularity, questions Drake's weight, and makes fun of him for being named Aubrey.
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The utterly gorgeous "Keep Me" sways over sunny rhythm guitar, assorted breathy backup moans, and a drum track that clicks and snaps in response to the melody, a fragile thing.
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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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With time the hard-rock edge softened, and he turned more and more to breathy ballads in the venerable French chanson tradition of Jacques Brel, Édith Piaf and Serge Gainsbourg.
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The basslines have a rubbery malleability; the album's breathy background exhalations and occasional bursts of candy-colored synthesizer share a sensibility with Taylor Swift's Lover and Harry Styles's Fine Line.
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In her old age, she is an explorer holding out for the right savior—a dog with valor but without drool: Find me instead More like the breathy Saint Bernard.
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On the cozy, chirpy "My Phone," the slight echo accentuating her singing radiates delighted relief, while on "Apathy" her breathy double-tracked voice over bitter guitar crunch shivers with nervous resignation.
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Ferreira's the first guest vocalist ever to appear on an Iceage song, and she and Elias Rønnenfelt feel like inevitable collaborators, the breathy bittersweetness of her vocal offsetting his pained style.
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The music includes red howler monkeys, breathy thumps from the mutum jungle fowl, droning cicadas, eerie calls locals attribute to deadly bushmaster vipers and the unhinged excitement of elusive titi monkeys.
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A good example is the Akira soundtrack by Geinoh Yamashirogumi, which bombards the listener with a diversity of drums, wind instruments, breathy vocals, and high-pitched bells, all overlapping and interweaving.
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One Noisey writer (hi Josh) compared the breathy melodies of "Roses That Cry" to Broken Social Scene, and I haven't been able to get that comparison out of my head since.
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And the vocals change depending on which one you're controlling: yellow sounds like a happy-go-lucky child, pink is a breathy French chanteuse, while blue is a would-be crooner.
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READ MORE: The Jewish tailor who made Elvis' most famous suit 1962: Marilyn Monroe singing "Happy Birthday" to JFK OK, so it's more of a breathy, spoken-word performance than a song.
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There's no word yet on what the campaign will look like (please be dramatic and breathy) or what the actual juice will smell like (weed and manuscripts?), but we are excited nonetheless.
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One night Dahl went so far as to stand on a ladder, slip a bamboo cane through his children's curtains while they were falling asleep, and make a loud, breathy whooshing sound.
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A movement titled "Beneath the Shell," obviously inspired by Duke Ellington, elicited a breathy, evocatively slurred tenor saxophone interlude by Chris Speed, followed by a neat, expressive cornet essay by Kirk Knuffke.
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And, just as their music wields loud-quiet dynamics—slipping from crashing cymbals and 90s alt-rock guitars to layers of breathy vocals over teasing basslines—they occupy several spaces at once.
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At first, it seems just like any other social media post, designed to foster a celebrity's sense of intimacy with his fans: hands tinkling piano keys; a breathy, even erotic, melancholy croon.
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A spiritual successor to Kate Bush, Arthur Russell and Björk, Hval uses her breathy voice, programmed beats and Arp Odyssey synthesizer to invoke a pop cosmogony of feminism, humor, sensuality and noise.
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The cast offers its own pleasures, especially Swinton (in her Madame Blanc role) and Johnson, a performer whose lightly breathy voice and low-key, almost affectless charisma can quickly turn unsettling, menacing.
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Well, we'll have to wait at least another few months to really find out, but for now, we've got one answer: synthy beats with the breathy whisper of the Tesla magnate's voice.
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"Jackie's tone was very quiet, very breathy," Babcock said (Babcock also explained that her one issue with Portman's delivery is that she delivers it with a "creaky voice" affectation and less breath).
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Her coos and sighs, plus whispery backup from many famous guest singers weaving the collective breathy tapestry, balloon to fill the music's blank spaces, turning an airy vocal style into airy polyphony.
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"Thinkin Bout You" offers a bit of '80s tinged flavor, reminiscent of Janet Jackson's early, breathy delivery, while "Set" seems aimed at anyone who wants to tap into that regal Serena Williams vibe.
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That these messages are wrapped up in catchy pop tracks, tucked between breathy moans and playfully explicit lyrics (sample from "Interlude – Speaker Phone": "Your coochie gon' swell up and fall apart") is irrelevant.
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Listen to Julia Child on her cooking show — her breathy intonations, her sentences punctuated by laughter — and you'd think, that is a woman with a speech pattern so unique it's impossible to replicate.
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Ballinger's brand-new eight-episode series, Haters Back Off, follows Miranda's career after she posts her first video — a breathy version of "Defying Gravity" — and discovers that, gee, the internet can really suck.
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And while nine years ago, Grande was recognized for her breathy voice or fiery red hair on the Nickelodeon show, now she's known for her record-breaking music — and her massive tattoo collection.
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Here, the technology analyzes characteristics like articulation, pitch variation, and vocal effort ("a measure of a feature designed to discriminate soft, breathy voices from loud, tense ones") in order to provide more data.
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The grand, two-dimensional landscapes of Laloux's film would have fit the swelling guitars; the pastel shots and flashes of color would have lined up with Misty Mary's breathy, occasionally angst-ridden vocals.
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It beats last year's John Lewis ad, anyway, which marooned a lonely old man on the moon and set the whole thing to a mopey, breathy indie cover version of an Oasis song.
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"Deep Six Textbook" is a gorgeous slow-burner of a track, embracing the pat-a-cake eccentricities that make the band's live sets so disturbing and adding layers of breathy harmonies on top.
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This time, there's breathy electronic gasps on OCA's Preset Music, bioluminescent keyboard work on poemme's Moments in Golden Light, and tensile crackly explorations of synthetic space on Mike Nigro and Andrew Osterhoudt's Latitudes.
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Mercedes-Benz says it has also "systematically developed the use of sustainable materials" in the Vision EQS, which is a breathy way of saying there's a lot of recycled plastic in this car.
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VALERIE JUNE "The Order of Time" (Concord) Rootsy, leisurely, genre-blurring Americana grooves roll along and evolve behind Valerie June's assorted voices — nasal, clear, cracked, breathy — in songs with a casual, conversational surface.
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"Everything He Needs" melds her voice into the beat's breathy swish, a shifting, feathery amalgamation of electronic exhalations, as the high background keyboards create a sense of mounting excitement inside a cozy space.
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A suite entitled "Orgelbuch," with rumbling pedal tones and breathy hoots in the treble, suggests the noise that the king of instruments makes in the middle of the night, while the world slumbers.
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Co-written with and produced by her older brother Finneas O'Connell, Eilish crafts music for permanently grey skies using moody, heavy synths, creating a dirge that's in diametric opposition to her breathy, girly voice.
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Key House, the setting of Netflix's newest fantasy-horror offering, Locke & Key, is a place where magical keys produce breathy murmurs only children can hear, and, once found, open things far stranger than doors.
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The Ying Yang Twins were not the first artists to whisper on a track, but their breathy pickup lines on 2005's "Wait (The Whisper Song)" might as well be commemorated in the Smithsonian.
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"Bed" is a temperate collaboration with Ariana Grande, a breathy come-on with extra-mild dancehall underpinnings, and while Ms. Minaj is an excellent rapper, she tends toward lower gears on songs like these.
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Ms. Morgue's breathy voice sketches an encounter with Medusa; in the moment she's turned to stone, she's "chosen" to join "ghosts of past heroes" and "fight until you're hopeless," and it sounds like bliss.
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Ms. Neuwirth's score, intent on departing from opera's rules about proper technique, support and vibrato, gives precise instructions about quality of sound, often calling for breathy straight tone, belting and other unconventional operatic approaches.
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Smith conducts a gospel-like chorus of chants and drum beats and hand claps, swelling around Croft's breathy croons — and transforming the song from an intimate confession into an all-consuming, gravity-defying hymn.
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To that end there are several Jackies roving in the movie, among them the anxious, breathy hostess who wafts through the White House, explaining her renovations to a CBS crew for a 1962 tour.
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"I'm a fallen alien / I never thought that you would be the one to tie me down," she sings on "Fallen Alien," her breathy falsetto floating above odd, cinematic piano keys and cavernous beats.
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The latest celebrates turning 19, simply called "19th birthday," and it finds the producer working a breathy sample, melancholy house keyboards, and a calmly self-possessed rhythmic foundation into something slow-burning and rich.
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Dolled up (that's the only way to describe it) within an inch of her life, with a voice pitched high and breathy, she gives a comic performance that's just about worth the price of admission.
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The songs they made together would end up becoming her 2006 album 5:55, a breezy record that first demonstrated Gainsbourg's knack for wringing every bit of emotion out of just a few breathy words.
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Wayne's comfort in the sonic world of Lloyd's breathy, seductive singing showed that he had a whole separate side to his skills, one that didn't rely on electrifying punchlines about guns or bone-rattling beats.
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The spare, new wave synths and electric percussion that play over the video don't interfere with Doleman's breathy falsetto, which doesn't clash with the neon on-screen—but it all works collectively as a sensory jolt.
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For "A Closer Look" on Monday, Late Night host Seth Meyers unpacked Donald Trump's (undeniably breathy) speech about the shutdown, and his rejected deal to end it — and land that $5.7 billion for his border wall.
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Rosalía, a major star in Spain, writes up-to-the-minute songs infused with bits of tradition; the six-beat buleria rhythm of those handclaps is meshed with staccato trap percussion and her breathy, intimate vocal.
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To three movements from "The Art of Fugue," 16 dancers abandoned themselves to breathy spins and ecstatic leaps (Devon Louis stood out for his extra-springy jump), a statement on the urgency of communing with nature.
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But the breathy voiceover, neon aesthetic, pop music fascination, and two-kids-against-the-mob love story make it clear that Baby Driver has borrowed more than a little bit from Quentin Tarantino's '90s classic True Romance.
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I will say hearing the Beyoncé track specifically was really interesting, because my own vocals had been really breathy and very delicate — to hear her do it with so much more body and power was really interesting.
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Built around a shifting tide of breathy, spectral hiss evocative of certain dark ambient sounds, "Aurel Afrek"'s 4/4 pulse is agitated by fidgeting rimshots while magnetically pulled along by a tip-toeing electric piano figure.
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Much more than a show on television, Game of Thrones has become (at least for those who have only seen the show casually, if ever) a byword for misogyny, gratuitous violence, and breathy monologues amid exotic climes.
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But back in September, we had never even heard of the coronavirus, so it didn't matter when someone touched their hands to your shoulders, shoved their chest into your back, exhaled hot breathy screams in your face.
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Joining Justin Tranter, who co-wrote the song (which, even without the addition of Love, objectively slaps) onstage, Love channelled its longing side, weighing vocal lines that Gomez made breathy and sweet down with her signature growl.
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You know the look—part smoldering stare, part breathy anticipation, part searching for where to start, as though they're at a casino buffet, unsure whether to go with a salad or head straight for the roast beef.
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Musically, the Barbados-born singer is often criticized, accused of not actually being a talented singer because of her very specific voice, which is not quite standard powerhouse, but more ambient, growling, and breathy at the same time.
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Chewy tunes and underlying ostinato harmonies snake their way through a dense mesh of crackling snare drums, thumping electronic bass, fluttery keyboards, cold, breathy space, and a general textural harshness counteracted in the melodies and not much else.
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"He's clearly traumatized by the event because sometimes I'll be rocking him to sleep at night and all of a sudden he'll be like, 'I run away … Mommy's scared,' " she admits, mimicking her son in a breathy voice.
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Her early Madonna-esque delivery (the vocals remind if of the sort of breathy, limited way Madonna was produced in the early days) brings to mind some of the expert ways she played with these ideas as well.
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"Barefoot in the Park" is tenser, thanks to Rosalia's fraught, fragile singing, but while the electrobeat complements her, it sounds stiff, too contrived in its just-right blend of keyboard gloss and sampled, inarticulate, breathy human-adjacent moan.
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Specifically, the song (hear it above)—which is otherwise a straightforward, if fairly chill pop track very much in Gomez's sexy, breathy wheelhouse—borrows Tina Weymouth's bassline from "Psycho Killer," making it the main feature alongside the vocals.
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Her breathy soprano, layers of synths and a band that can go from understated groove to maximalist jam in the space of a chorus merge to create songs that are engaging, even as they create an easy ambience.
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Their upcoming new album for Artoffact Records, Nótt eftir nótt, blends the mystical and euphoric with cold, hard synth and icy darkwave vibes; it's a digital ice sculpture, wrought in slick Blade Runner tones and breathy, eerie vocals.
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If we've learned one thing from breathy concept designs and cheesy sci-fi movies, it's that we all deserve flexible technologies: bio-electric tattoos that measure our vitals and tablets we can roll up to shove in our pockets.
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Adam Granduciel's voice, a breathy wisp of a thing whose murmured soulfulness conjures the image of a cool blissed-out rock frontman grinning while bobbing his head to the beat, reveals the bland feelgood nature of the whole enterprise.
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Yet chopped up into 85 short chapters, with breathy titles such as "Freak Show" and "I Think We Should Tell You, We're Men," the book reads more like a novel — salacious, mysterious (another favorite word of hers) and harrowing.
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As for the track itself, Krauss' signature breathy vocals clash with Miller's riffing, and though Sleigh Bells might have decided to do things slightly different this time, their essence is still very much the same as it always was.
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When she opens "A Curse"with dry, breathy whisper, the chill is inescapable—dead leaves rustling in an graveyard on a still winter night—and her unearthly roars at its panicky, discordant end are enough to stop your heart.
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On this song from her EP "Inner Monologue Part 2," her breathy voice bounces across acoustic guitar chords and a looping beat; with eyes open, she's "ready to be hurt again," wishing for the best while expecting the worst.
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In some early research that tried to match vocal features with the likelihood of attempting suicide again, Morency's team found that people with a soft, breathy voice, not those with tense or angry voices, were more likely to reattempt, he says.
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Sprightly, sour, agile and efficient, Physically Sick ends on a moderately hopeful note: over glittery synthesizer and chugging drums, Octo Octa's "Only Tears" bubbles over with sighing, moaning vocal snippets in a major key, a blast of breathy, wordless awe.
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I double-checked to make sure the number was correct: Yep, it was Krystal Nielson, the California-based fitness coach whose famously breathy monologues shot the 30-year-old to villain status on Arie Luyendyk Jr.'s season of The Bachelor.
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After hitting the road for a West Coast tour, Martinez is back with "You Should," a luminous track built on house bones and breathy melodies that plays like the soundtrack to a summer night with no plans, but plenty of options.
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Ms. Brown has been one of the most inventive American masters of pure dance; I wish this work weren't marred by its music, by the usually admirable Laurie Anderson: soft pop accompanies a breathy, high-voiced recording of Polish-language poetry.
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As ever, Sälen's drum machine and breathy vocals lend the song a certain detached slickness, until you tune into the lyrics and realise Ellie is basically mugging someone off because they're not worth her time, in her typically understated way.
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As a ghostly icon, preserved in old clips and memories, she appears only in prerecorded cinematic pastiches: a black-and-white drama; a horror flick drenched in lurid Dario Argento red; a vehicle for a breathy, Marilyn Monroe-like star.
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It's more complicated than that; she is a skilled soprano with a three-octave range who chooses to sing in a flat, breathy monotone, as if clumsily attempting to sound sensual — or even parodying the conventions of sensual pop singing.
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Moments of joy and surprise abound too — especially on U.F.O.F.'s "Jenni," an enraptured exhalation of guitar static and breathy delight, with few lyrics besides "Jenni's in my room," which Lenker repeats again and again, as if trying to believe it.
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Their scratchy guitar tones, blanky breathy singing, and underlying drones don't aim for a monolithic sound, as in shoegaze, but rather the flickering of electricity, sustained inconsistently, partially dropping out for extended intervals before zapping back on at high voltage.
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All three band members sing cheerful melodies in breathy unison, commenting on each other's vocal lines, exclaiming and sighing, sometimes mumbling, as they are frantically swept up in a collective rapture that disrupts the illusion of a centered musical subject.
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Slurring her words slightly, she avoids the breathy and the throaty for something sharper and more nasal, a voice that admits no vulnerability and cuts like a siren, a voice that sings even the tender love songs with stark, unfeeling authority.
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Her breathy vocal style and talk of touch and physicality my perception of the album's sex and erotica feel pretty obvious (perhaps because in the touch-starved UK accidentally bumping knees with someone is a cause for fluster), but Lafawndah is bemused.
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In this fan's case, seeing a beast carry away a breathy maiden, who is terrified at first but succumbs to the creature's animalistic force—á la Dracula, King Kong, or Creature from the Black Lagoon—could have been a formative erotic experience.
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" Ballad "How to Feel" punctuates the sparse production with the occasional not-quite-cracked vocal or breathy gasp, moments of vulnerability that make way for belted lines like, "I've set everything you said in stone / And that's why everything I know is lost.
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"You say it's Bonnie and Clyde but I feel like Bobby and Whitney/ Don't know if you ride for me or if you riding against me," he laments on "Would You," in a voice that's sweet and breathy but that also telegraphs uncertainty.
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Written over the course of a year between Berlin, Ireland and scattered locations across Europe, the trio have captured a sound taking cues from dub techno, IDM and breakbeat matched with delicate ambient textures, washing synth lines and Jófríður's breathy and magnetic voice.
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If Shura sang for US Girls, she might sound like this — a breathy, technologically modulated vocal performance, designed to illustrate how automated gestures can both hide and magnify emotion, incorporated into a scarier, jerkier, shuffled recombination of keyboards, guitars, and extradiegetic noises.
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The West Virginian author was the joint creation of writer Laura Albert, who penned JT's books and conducted phone interviews in a breathy voice, and Savannah Knoop, Albert's sister-in-law who donned the now-iconic wig and sunglasses to embody JT in public.
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"Know" pairs Syd's agitated, breathy wail with a slinky, airy vacuum of a synthesizer that slices sharply through the empty space conjured above the drums and chopped-and-screwed backup vocals; the song's fraught vocal tone over the nervous, rushed, descending hook defines controlled hysteria.
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When everything clicks—such as on "Selfish," when machine gun-like bursts of drum claps coalesce into breathy vocal samples and other gentler sounds, before the Triton interrupts the balancing act with a riff that resembles plucked guitar strings—it's like a satisfying eureka!
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Or so I thought until our server told us, in breathy tones, about the "sundae set and candy shop," a pile of Neapolitan ice cream that comes with Pixy Stix, Chupa Chups, Gummi Bears, gold coins, M&Ms, chocolate pebbles and other sugar bombs.
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She uses only a little of her broad vocal range or her power; instead, she sings most of the song in a small, breathy voice, multitracked over a squashed, mechanical-sounding track, opening up only a little more when she reaches the title and refrain.
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Well, you'd kind of know it, because their performances all happen three printers away when they whisper sing along with their Sam Smith Pandora stations on their computer speakers so it's quiet, but just loud enough that you can make out every breathy word.
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The song is the lead single from her upcoming mixtape, What We Drew 우리가 그려왔던, and contains some familiar tentpoles: breathy synths, a punchy dancefloor soundbed, a heavy influence of jungle/drum-n-bass music, and all of it ornamented with Yaeji's blissful whisper-sing.
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While she sings straightforwardly around the melody in the foreground, her breathy backup vocals — or strings, or a softly ostinato keyboard texture — fill in the empty spots between the lines drawn by the discrete instruments, tricking the listener into imagining vast expanses of space.
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The lead-up to the kiss is full of breathy sighs and quivering lips, the two inching closer, then pulling back, then coming closer still, as Edward tries to suss out whether he can control the overwhelming urge to drink Bella's blood long enough to kiss her.
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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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In sandy and breathy tones, the instruments mold themselves to the speech patterns so that they smudge both the contours of the words and the character of the voice: a creepy imitation of the sort of voice distortion a hijacker might use to make ransom calls.
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In its willowy string arrangements and shivering keyboards, in the way Solange overdubs her vocals into a breathy, polyphonic echo chamber, A Seat at the Table eyes the world with wary caution, with the kind of quietude that is a response to and defense against pain.
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The group crashed into the charts with an innovative, compelling sound that was all their own, lead by the keen ear and breathy voice of Pharrell Williams, and while they've been a fixture on and off, their most beloved work remains the stuff they made early on.
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" A zigzagging, finger-tapping guitar pattern splays into a mesh of chords with a hint of Hendrix, behind a breathy, androgynous vocal that doesn't mince words: "I might be a soft-spoken person/But I'm aware of the power I have/So move out of my way.
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Ms. Clark's voice has always been inviting, a silky mezzo-soprano that can whisper breathy confidences, turn sweetly deadpan or open outward to portray longing and ache, and she uses it as strategically as an actress would, inhabiting characters who may or may not be like her.
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One of them in particular was mastering Jackie's breathy speaking voice, which required Portman to carefully study audio recordings and video of the former first lady — the toughest aspect being the fact that she couldn't take the character's unique speaking voice home with her and practice on her family.
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The Perfect Red Velvet ebbs and flows between the sultry R&B standout track "Bad Boy" (arguably one of the best K-pop songs of the year, period) the cheeky, bright "Peek-A-Boo" and breathy, synth-laden "Look," all the while painting a prismatic picture of femininity. 2.
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These deceptively simple teenpop songs may take a while to digest thanks to the music's incongruous metallic harshness, as upbeat melodies coo from behind a veil of drum machines and whirring knives, breathy vocals against creaking percussion, plonking house piano, a sonic sharpness that's disconcerting given the context.
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At a performance of "Counting in Quileute" in 2013 at Roulette in Downtown Brooklyn, a set of speakers encircling the audience created an immersive and disorienting experience as torrents of foreign words washed over listeners and merged with breathy and brittle sounds created live by an instrumental ensemble.
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In recent years, it's a genre tag that's started to suggest a certain amount of homogeneity: as a rule, you know to expect basic song structure, breathy female vocals, and maybe a music video where someone is lying down on some ruffled satin or velvet and looking vaguely tortured.
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The burbly singsong sway of "Foreign," the synthesized strings bouncing up and down throughout "Shoota," the high-pitched squeals embedded into the woozy, breathy electronic rush of "Fell in Luv" — all suggest a sort of warped rap shoegaze, as the aqueous synthesizer gurgle simulates waves of electric feedback.
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With its bare bones rhythms, single key synth lines and breathy spoken vocals, "Face The Truth" by Hercules & Love Affair alumnus Shaun J. Wright and fellow Chicago producer Alinka taps into the minimalist spirit of the Windy City's early house music anthems by the likes of Robert Owens and Larry Heard.
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From the breathy, synth-pop-inspired sound throughout Reputation to her unwavering insistence that the Taylor of yore is, well, dead and buried (she's even made it her Instagram bio, in case you had any doubts), Swift has fully committed to recasting herself as the edgy, self-aware pop star.
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The album is a journey through songs about being confident in a lover ("Stay Happy"), Broken Social Scene's version of protest music ("Mouth Guards of the Apocalypse"), breathy but urgent tracks like the titular "Hug of Thunder," and cacophonous musical trips that are typical of the band ("Vanity Pail Kids").
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As the songs unfolded, Ms. Arocena deployed a kaleidoscope of voices: low and breathy, teasing and sultry, clear and euphoric, articulately scatting, even at one point using her hand like a mute to create an abstract wah-wah effect, batting rhythms back and forth with Raul Herrera Martínez on drums.
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"That Girl Is You" unfolds from introduction to obsession over a four-chord syncopated guitar riff, with Mr. Matthews playing nearly every part in the studio, yet there's an improvisational volatility to his voice — breathy and cagey, then rounded and courteous, then agitated and scratchy, then shrieking in wild-eyed falsetto.
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I like the idea that my enjoyment of the form is in some way genetic, like I was programmed all along to get excited about the transcendent lift of a chorus or to linger on the breathy thrill of a singer's enunciation, whatever path the rest of my life would take.
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Known for an experimental but welcoming form of electronic pop, the duo of Thomas Mullarney III and Jacob Gossett create both emotive dancefloor tracks like "Backbone" and loungier affairs like "Running Out" in Escapements, all bolstered by Mullarny's melodic, breathy vocals, which cut through with reverb and other more warped sound edits.
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Its punchy power pop has broadened, daubing power chords with a range of wacky elements: xylophone; marimba; breathy backup vocals; lanky string arrangements; splashes of synthesizer gloss; bubblefunk rhythm guitar; and foregrounded African highlife riffs, of all things, with that high, clear, trebly guitar sound (is this the '80s influence in question?).
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You may have heard of her as frontwoman of shoegaze-y Kiwi electropop act Yumi Zouma, making the sort of breathy music designed for days when you rub the sleep out of your eyes in anticipation of sunshine, a slow morning and an afternoon that ambles into the warmth of the sunset.
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Those experiences, along with the schooling he received growing up in a particularly musical household, all feed into Language's standout tracks like the cosmic slow jam "Can I Come Over?" which uses Cook's breathy falsetto and tensile guitar leads as the background for a moving meditation on human relation in the era of pocket supercomputing.
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And so she has a bird's eye view that lets her fuse textures from one genre or sphere—of wibble-wobbling basslines, quivering synths—with others (of the melismatic and breathy, Janet Jackson-esque vocal melodies steeped in black American music), which would seem totally incongruous to someone who hadn't spent their life code-switching.
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He sings, too, in a faintly breathy voice that follows the music's lead; often his lyrics are weird enough to suggest oblique attempts at satire (sample: "Gonna eat so much fish I think I'm gonna be sick/gonna blow all my cash on anime," also "It's cool to be a cat/meow meow meow").
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Obviously, not everyone past the age where trying to look cool is horrifically uncool is terrible at handling their drugs, but there's something uniquely harrowing about making wide-eyed eye contact with a breathy, sweaty 52 year old estate agent stuffed into a stripy shirt and some battered adidas Sambas in the corner of a nightclub.
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It's a malady typified by "Feel It Still," the radio hit: sly bass, eerie bursts of horn, and a playful, descending guitar loop attach to a melody that would be sublime if John Gourley sang it an octave or two lower, in his natural register, rather than affecting a breathy falsetto in an awkward attempt at arch cool.
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"Ella," named for the legendary jazz singer, is the lead single from upcoming EP. The ethereal, electro-soul single "I was always drawn to a certain kind of jazz voice growing up, a breathy sound that almost seems fragile, but it isn't, and often reminiscent of a horn instrument," Esmé said of the song in a press release.
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Zipping through Laurel Canyon folk, misty-eyed late-afternoon melancholy, fluttering flamenco, private press oddity perfection, cosmically-inclined country rock, breathy synth-pop, Ibizan hillside police chase soundtracks, waterlogged house-not-house, and Barry White, this is the sound of two men who know good music inside out doing nothing but playing amazing records for nearly six hours.
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Soccer Mommy's trick is to combine several smaller, more commonplace tropes in the service of a grander narrative: the breathy sneer, the vocal ache that signals adolescent misery and gender solidarity, the guitar distortion whose rawness correlates with lyrical introspection, the diaristic illusion, the tunes that sound catchy in your head and abrasive when she sings them.
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Her signature mood contradiction is that between heart and machine — there's a bionic, nearly antiseptic quality to the record that firmly transfers it from chartpop territory to the land of the Chromatics, who share with Shura a sweeping grandiosity undercut by musical artifice, yet at the same time her breathy vocals ache and yearn with fierce pathos.
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She rides a Latin big band with assertive bite in "Te Quiero con Bugalú" ("I Want You With Boogaloo") and "Rescatarme" ("To Rescue Me"); she's openhearted and tearful in pop ballads including "Maldito Sea el Amor" ("Cursed Be the Love") and "Caníbal" ("Cannibal"); she's breathy and innocent in the delicate acoustic "Triángulo" ("Triangle") and "Que Mal Que Estoy" ("How Bad I Feel").
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There, she encounters a real-life nutcracker soldier, Captain Phillip Hoffman (Jayden Fowora-Knight), and regents who preside over three of the four realms: the breathy-voiced Sugar Plum Fairy (Keira Knightley) regent of the Land of Sweets, Shiver (Richard E. Grant) the frosty regent of the Land of Snowflakes, and Hawthorne (Eugenio Derbez), regent of the Land of Flowers, whose pompadour is topped with blossoms.
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Grace Medford If you find yourself offended by what I'm about to say, consider your feelings irrelevant and incorrect: "Ooh Ooh Baby" is a better version of "Womanizer"—breathy, racy, sexy, with lyrics that you can enjoy both as an unsuspecting 11-year-old and as a fully-formed adult deviant ("I can feel you on my lips / I can feel you deep inside").
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His vocal – a nasal whine the likes of which have gone unheard since James Blunt retired from music to become Mr Twitter Banter – chomps up the syllables to sound more regional and everyman; over-enunciating some, mumbling and drawling others like he's still a shy guy at an open mic night in a local pub, and splitting Robyn's righteous "Ohhh" hook in the chorus into three, breathy syllables.
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"Hotwire the Ferris Wheel" enlists Everything But the Girl's Tracey Thorn to sing a jaunty duet about sneaking into an amusement park and using the rides after hours to the tune of ethereal backup singers melding with breathy synthesized violin and rhythm glide; musical soar parallels the presumed thrill of riding a Ferris wheel, at night, when you're not supposed to, wind in your face, the view receding into the distance.
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So now, DJ Khaled's breathy "just whisper if you don't wanna shout out what you need" is inextricably linked, at least in this listener's mind, with the Ying Yang Twins' "lemme whisper in ya ear," and, in turn, with lines like "walk around the club with ya thumb in ya mouth / put my dick in, take ya thumb out"—all spoken in our minds' eye by a genie in a kids' movie. Splendid!
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If the Manson family had actually been successful in channeling all their crazy energy into music instead of murder, churning out a feisty, groovy, eclectic soundtrack for the revolution, and if you swapped out their schlubby, squat leader for a mesmerizing miss with a sometimes breathy, sometimes warm voice and a clothing-optional approach to performance, her face smeared with glittery blue paint like a modern-day Pict, you'd get Sloppy Jane.
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Recorded down by the riverside in Weehawken because Monk wasn't together or perhaps even interested enough to get to France, this unsynchronized 1959 "soundtrack" for a sexed-up Roger Vadim rip of the 1782 novel of the same name offers no new compositions but several this-time-onlys as it deploys the exceptional rhythm section of bassist Sam Jones and drummer Art Taylor and on some tracks a second saxophonist named Barney Wilen to texture Charlie Rouse's breathy imperturbality.
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This year, we found ourselves terrified—fucking terrified—that John Lewis would get a bland man with coiffed hair to take on a David Bowie classic, such as "Heroes", and turn it into a breathy, piano-led slice of hell for their advert, which would then go on to sell millions of copies and inevitably outperform the original, and then maybe get turned into a tropical house banger later down the line, which would then outperform the original of the original, and ultimately end up on a NOW That's What I Call Classic Reworks CD, like a literal kick to the dead face of David Bowie.
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