The album concludes with the title track "Good Girl Gone Bad", which is played with an acoustic guitar and click tracks.
Click, click, click, click, click.
It's a perfect fade-in to the moment when the guitars suddenly click into place with bass and drums, unveiling that perfect, spiralling riff.
Ray repeats it again and again, as the band goes through its metronomic paces, that simple guitar line clicking over and over — first like a clock, and then shifting to something more regular, human, and reassuring, almost like a heartbeat.
After that, go down to where it says "Guitar Track", and click on the "... ........ to the right of that.
Golden features an Edge of Seventeen guitar sample, finger clicks, the sound of crystals shattering.
The free-rock quartet Black Dice played up the incongruity by performing a great miniaturist set full of glowing guitar notes and growling, clicking electronics.
Marching into the Dark opts for a sparse scattering of vocal samples, clicks and guitar, the ebullience of the chorus's melody at odds with the song's lyrical bleakness ("What good is a dream when the dreamer dies?") and the coda of queasy strings that brings the album to its conclusion.
The average hardcore song lasts about 90 seconds, featuring howling vocals, super-fast chugging rhythm sections, and feedback-driven guitar, starting with four clicks of the drumsticks and stopping on a dime.
The Gorilla Vs Bear blog has a track from it at http://tinyurl.com/dkkpxv, which sees the band continue their rich vein of good form, with clanging guitars and percussive clicks coming to the fore.
