On De-loused in the Comatorium, the songs blend and blur as snarling guitar solos snag gentle keyboard melodies with enough aggression to keep old fans rioting.
He suggests, I think correctly, that the space, small but real, between America's fierce political-musical sortings of the period (to be with Sinatra was, for an American, to stand with Spiro Agnew) and Canada's nicely blurred and gentler sortings allowed us to love Sinatra without worrying too much about what he stood for.
Weir's adaptations of that mode feature a very gentle sunlight and unmodulated, similar colors that tend to make scenes blur in a pleasant, soothing way.
She is chastising him for being "lazy" and straightening up his things when she blurs into the background of his living room, her gentle gospel humming melding smoothly into the jagged sound of his phone vibrating.
This is a gentle and beautifully photographed piece with a primary emphasis on feel and mood which sometimes blurred its sense of narrative and pace.
The music blurs the line between free jazz, indigenous folk songs and contemporary classical, moving gracefully from gentle passages for one or two instruments to furious, fully orchestrated swells.
It is a trade-off people who do this piece have to make: a sprint with blurs or a gentler lope in which all is revealed.
Slashes break up paragraphs/like lines of lyrics/and choruses repeat and blur/like a gentle remix.
Blur, blur, blur," he said.
Blur, blur, blur," the president complained.
