In "Hear My Call," accompanied by sparse piano chords and string arrangements, she prays for healing in a desolate, breathy voice.
Following them both is Sheriff Bell (Tommy Lee Jones), who seems in no particular hurry, and whose ruminations on crimes past and present committed in this desolate part of Texas are spoken in a gravelly voice-over.
This was a truly desolate part of Manhattan.
As in Tool, that music can involve changeable meters, evolving structures and complex patterns, but Mr. Keenan's voice — a desolate croon that seethes underneath — is always at its center.
Mr. Springsteen has been the voice of this eerily desolate former seashore haven since his 1973 album, "Greetings from Asbury Park".
Mr. Keenan's sustained, almost androgynous voice hovers within the music, desolate but impervious to the tumult around him.
Like P. J. Harvey, she builds songs around bluntly strummed guitar chords and implacable drumbeats, and she pushes her voice to extremes; she can be sultry, desolate, abstracted or adamant.
Her low voice gave foghorn strength to the opera's desolate last lines, after the widow has refused the Captain's empty condolences: "If a hundred / People were murdered / And their blood / Flowed in the wake / Of this ship like / Oil, only then / Would the world intervene.
Day has a brassy and wide-ranging voice that settles right into high-energy funk or desolate ballads.
The sound of men's voices echoed through the concrete columns of Lower Wacker Drive, desolate and frigid on a recent stormy Sunday night.
