The escalating guitar picking and bare vocals allow wide breathing space among the lyrics, which are doubled at the chorus -- a technique Smith often pursued while recording.
The producer trades in the tiki bar beats for sultry rhythms wrought with an unexpected existentialism, trimming away the production fat and leaving the barest vocal work and only hints of melody.
The piercing organ riff, bare-bones vocal track, and low-fidelity production make it a safe candidate for first punk rock song ever.
It is, ultimately, and all the more powerful because even as the music promises transcendence, the vocal lays bare the trauma that needs to be transcended.
The new remaster and arrangement puts it in a whole new context: Now it's even more tender, emotionally bare and Mick's vocals are given a new clarity and intimacy.
Among its cluster of spaced-out instrumentals is "Abyss," the lone vocal-led track featuring Norwegian vocalist/producer Ida Dillan, whose syrupy vocals, atop a bare sonic palette of crystalline layer of hi-hats and looming, ethereal synths, seem to slow down time.
Hearing it like that, the strings bare and alone, Shara Nelson's peerless vocal in isolation, those little scratches and samples from Mahavishnu Orchestra and John McLaughlin's "Planetary Citizen"... it was just wonderful.
The music on "Bare" spurns the upfront staccato rhythms and clipped vocals of most current pop.
A few minutes into the film Mr. Carrey bares almost all in a highly physical and vocal bedroom scene.
He immediately announced, "Which song needs the signature John Roderick vocal treatment!?" Crown Vic only had bare-bones vocals on it at that point, so Chris ran out and did a reference track on the choruses and we were off to the races.
