Not only that, but he had his band slow the song to a crawl so he could do impressive vocal runs over the delicate groove, a stunt he pulled several times during the gig.
Even "Hands to Myself," ostensibly about how she can't keep them that way, is a study in restraint, with the singer practically whispering over an uncharacteristically delicate groove by producer Max Martin.
Mr. Young put the damaged discs on a turntable in the studio and while continually dousing the discs with water, let the phonograph needle run through the delicate grooves and pull the old music off, so it could be recorded digitally — essentially extracting one last play from these one-of-a-kind crumbling discs.
Los Angeles-based musician Shyboy has teamed up with Willis to craft an entirely new, indie-pop version of the classic single with Shyboy's understated tenor lilting over delicate, synth-driven grooves.
But just seconds into the opener, How We Be, the music veers off into different sounds: a deep, Curtis Mayfield-esque groove; a delicate falsetto; a final layer of wind instrumentation that hints at Afrobeat.
Elsewhere, Dreadzone transforms Us And Them into a skittering groove lit by delicate guitar arpeggios, while the Pink Floyd origins of Border Crossing's splendid Step It Pon The Rastaman Scene are virtually undetectable.
Between vocalist Syd Tha Kid's sexy, delicate croons and the jazzy grooves of the band, 2013's "Feel Good" will make you want to get nice and close to the one you love on the dance floor or share a bottle of wine by the fireplace.
Over a crisp, intricately woven beat that fizzes and hisses around a simple violin riff, Rostron intones "Patriarchal life, you're out of date", before a strange mid-section of delicate keyboard splashes creates an undulating groove.
The Avalanches' songs are intricate machines with a thousand tiny, delicate moving parts, and they wear their grooves lightly.
The tracks, which drop next week under the title I Felt This Way Before, meld growling low end, cosmic synth lines, delicate arpeggios, and walking basslines into waggling grooves.
Ms. Henriques moves fluidly from a delicious Samba on Groove to the personal conversation and delicate Waltz of "Beau Paris," to the upbeat and optimistic Another Good Year which rounds out the album with a tantalizing "boogie woogie" number that simply screams HOPE, HAPPINESS, AND GOODNESS.
