Word: staccato
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...switchboard and single phone line, kept her up-to-date on the dorm’s romantic drama. It even gave her the chance to broadcast information about friends’ dates using a code. One buzz was a phone call; two, a female visitor; three, a male visitor. Staccato buzzes meant an attractive male...
...music of Lazarus is truly only for the indie-rock aficionado. To the untrained ear this music is a less inspired Parachutes, or a less harmonious Sea Change. With its staccato synthesized tambour, poetically upbeat lyrics, but melodiously stilted chords, this is an avant-garde record with a narrow and specialized audience...
...Palace Music’s “Marriage,” albeit three times as long—keen deep into the later minutes of tracks, which seem to have a hard time ending; most simply fade out over the instrumentation or have all instruments hit a staccato last note in an extremely forced sense of closure...
...floating beneath the calculated, precise production there’s a poignant beauty that could only be described as natural. One’s heart could beat to the slipshod, improvised bravado of “What’d I Say,” or it could wiggle, staccato beat-to-beat, calypso style to “Unchain my Heart...
There are a few fresh tracks on Ca$hville including "Let Me In," a club hit with a catchy staccato melody, and "Look At Me Now," in which a reflective Buck raps about "what these streets done done to me" over a bouncy beat by Denaun Porter (who produced the steel pan anthem "P.I.M.P." for 50 Cent). Unlike Compton, however, Ca$hville fails to inspire any awe or fear of Southern street culture. It is Tennessee, after...