According to a statement, the music "hearkens back to the original psychedelic roots of the [band]: atmospheric, melodic, heavy, and pretty".
The band ISIS makes its hard rock by a process of slow-cooking: what's inside the music is revealed only over the long haul, as textures and moods keep changing in the long compositions, from a deep bottom-end crunch to pretty melodic hazes.
According to Susan Groves of WHRL, part of the song's success came about because very few people knew of Powderfinger, but were drawn towards "My Happiness" because it was "melodic, [and] pretty"—a change from what she described as "middle of the road rock" popular in the United States.
To complement the tones of the bass and viola, he created percussion sounds with Game Boy loops, and then used an autochord for "Princess Bubblegum's melodies" to make "pretty, melodic swoops to accompany BMO's rigid, robotic patterns, loops, and structures".
Hazey Jane I is as graceful as any of these instrumental pieces – all gentle cymbal splashes and blossoming strings – but it also feature's one of Drake's prettiest melodic lines.
That bass is unusually thick, almost catastrophe-level, and moves with force while he spreads out decidedly pretty and melodic samples atop it.
Cook chooses a pop-ish rocker called "Dream Big," which has the usual inspirational lyrics ("But if you don't dream big, what's the use of dreaming?") but a pretty solid melodic hook.
Both Clark and Bruzga will also play in Koone's still to-be-named rock group, which he emphasizes will be "more involved in terms of actual songwriting" and vocals that are "pretty and melodic" instead of the demonic contortions of these recordings.
Tom Ewing Gorgeous, mind-melting ripples'n'pulses from this Bostonian psych-synth champ, somewhere between Terry Riley's mesmerising arpeggios and Orbital's prettiest, flutteriest melodic peaks.
