In his enfant terrible stage in the 1930s he was both praised and dismissed as a progressive and accessible voice, in contrast to the politically nostalgic and poetically obscure voice of T. S. Eliot.
On the "Anthology" records, Dylan heard Dock Boggs, Blind Lemon Jefferson, the Carter Family, the Reverend J. M. Gates, Sleepy John Estes, dozens of strange and obscure voices singing about train wrecks, floods, faith, betrayal, an America as rich, joyful, and tragic as "Leaves of Grass".
Because Mr. Croiter, who produced Ms. Rivera's album with Bill Sherman, is a very aggressive drummer, her signature songs were delivered with an extra kick that at times obscured her voice and the other instruments.
But the main objection is that the pastiche partially obscures the voice.
That particularly New York conviction that construction equals regeneration may have obscured other voices, but they are still out there.
Her 2013 album Britney Jean was characterized by Spears as being highly personal, but it was criticized for obscuring her voice with synthesized effects.
During a rare moment when he is not obscuring his voice or modulating it to outlandish glam-rock effect, he speaks sombrely and directly.
And she stays within a narrower range in her vocal melodies, sticking to chant-like choruses and sometimes obscuring her voice with a vocoder or burying it deep in the mix another way that "Reputation" has ceded Swift's ownership of her sound to a force bigger than her, if there is such a thing.
He doesn't need to listen to obscure online voices if he doesn't want to.
The recording has none of the distracting echo that so often obscures the voices in period-instrument recordings.
