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You might think that nothing much has changed based on opener The Children – distorted vocals, gamelan-like samples and it may well resist stepping into essentialist ethnocentric traps, but it doesn't have a tune.
Clark's quiet-spokenness and low-key demeanour is jolting next to her music, which is bold, multi-instrumental and multi-layered: synths plink and plonk in dramatic ways, woozily distorted vocals jostle with heavy drum beats and jamming guitars.
On Balam Acab's début LP, "Wander/Wonder," Koone drenches narcotic beats in a deep, aquatic echo, and tops them with heavily distorted vocals that sound like gentle lullabies as sung by Alvin and the Chipmunks.
"There were a lot of thoughts in my mind at that time," he says now, "that I wasn't ready to share with the world," and the matter of Ben's health was so personal that in 1982, when Young released a strange album called "Trans" with electronically distorted vocals, few knew it grew out of an effort to communicate with his speechless son by computer.
The song also features Timberlake's "low register distorted vocals".
Distorted vocals echo in the background, building something truly epic.
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At the same time, the technology creates what Audistry calls a "wide stereo image," meaning the space between the music's instruments also seems to widen without distorting vocals at the center of the mix.
Love Me Now has distorted backing vocals, a riff played on an out of tune piano and a propulsive rhythm track (not to mention a video featuring footage shot in Standing Rock, Orlando's Pulse nightclub and an Iraqi refugee camp), but it can't quite hide how identikit the song at its centre is.
"Ur Soul and Mine" samples the vocals from Rui da Silva's house classic "Touch Me", distorting the vocals in the song's verse, but retaining its refrain.
They might look absurd, but occasionally LMFAO can be tender, as on "La La La," during which Redfoo played keytar, robotically distorting his vocals.
If anything, it's closer to Neil Young's 1982 album "Trans," on which Young used a vocoder to distort his vocals to express the frustration he felt about his inability to communicate with his son Ben, who'd been born with cerebral palsy and was unable to speak.
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