Word: overbright
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...each melody, then deliberately hide it amid equally alluring countermelodies. (I always remember how each early Orange Juice song begins, and almost never how any of them end.) The amateur connoisseurs in their Postcard days also knew how to handle production: nothing is muddy or inarticulate, but nothing is overbright or "too produced" or metallic or synth-damaged either. Nor is there a horn section. When Orange Juice signed to a major label, the evil corporate geniuses who did the signing persuaded them to add trumpets, backing vocals, and other extraneous gauzy trappings: if some songs...