Bagels in Kiev opens with precisely the kind of droning ambience that was supposed to be verboten on Painting With, then unfurls into a song on which the busy musical backdrop sounds sumptuous rather than messy.
Ms. LaVere, who lives in Memphis, has stepped outside the homespun, country-flavored Americana of her first two albums into more surreal territory: a zone of open spaces and resonant guitars, of sparse backdrops and inscrutable background sounds.
The waterfall opposite the door supplies a soothing backdrop of sound.
And the band – anchored by Benjamin Benjii" Reinhartz's thunderous drumming – provide a swaggering backdrop, their sound throbbing with a rumbling, dirty and brutal urgency.
The pounding of the Pacific surf could be heard Friday at the Fishermen's Memorial Sanctuary at Yaquina Bay State Park, providing a memorial service with a haunting backdrop of sound.
And around the songs and readings, the performers busy themselves creating a backdrop of sound effects - footsteps, rustling leaves, doors opening - more than enough for a month's episodes of The Archers.
On a mostly bare stage strewn with bottles of water and a backdrop of sound baffling, McBurney describes how McIntyre chances upon the tribe, follows its members deep into the jungle, and receives telepathic messages from the headsman.
Its backdrop may sound familiar – an American city riven by gang violence – but its secret is the way James, best-known for 1994's monumental Hoop Dreams, draws us ever closer into stories that engross and surprise the more time we spend with them.
The dance is played out on a white floor with a white paper backdrop that sounds like thunder when struck.
In a way, Deftones' songs aren't songs at all but, rather, gloriously textured backdrops of sound that establish a sense of heightened emotion.
