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Mistuned instruments, lopsided mixes, low-fi microphones, expressively imprecise timing: those are things Portishead prizes from the analog era and brings to its own recordings, which sound ever more peculiar alongside albums relying on computer-quantized rhythms and auto-tuned voices.
It's stepped up a notch since the academic launched a new web series in recent weeks, Global Weirding – a twist on the term global warming – to explain to doubters why climate change is causing ever more peculiar, dangerous weather and it's our fault.
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Then he noticed something even more peculiar.
My wife is even more peculiar.
The layout for the Ninth Symphony was even more peculiar.
His self-described inspiration for his Kiev congress is even more peculiar than his self-presentation.
He might be one of the more peculiar political theorists that ever lived, but in Argentina his theory was, at least once upon a time, relatively widespread.
Fearful slaveholders in the South, erroneously assuming that The Liberator represented the majority opinion of Northerners, reacted militantly by defending slavery as a "positive good" and by legislating ever more stringent measures to suppress all possible opposition to its "peculiar institution".
The process is hardly peculiar to the "Rite"; as musicians have grown ever more adept at handling the thorniest patches of the modern repertory, almost any work you could name has grown cleaner, more polished, and, perhaps, more lifeless.
If you ask the Miser, much of our mania is surely stoked by the peculiar logistical problems encountered when trying to fit millions of people and ever more of their stuff into a limited amount of geographical space.
"I have a more peculiar fetish.
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