Their forthcoming single, We Are Chosen, reminds us of some of our absolute favourite things of the last decade or so: UK garage at its most gossamer and gorgeous, when it featured seemingly pitch-shifted female voices; the US R&B of Ciara and Cassie; and Stillness Is the Move.
Even at their most gossamer the songs are rooted in strong melody, while the singing is meticulous, sensuous and, finally, soulful.
What impressed him most, he said recently, was how weavers in Okinawa had used natural fibers in unusually bold and simple ways and had created both the most gossamer of cloths and also dynamic open weaves.
Coward gives that impulse a voice in the most gossamer of his good plays, "Private Lives," when his spokesman Elyot Chase says, "Let's be superficial and pity the poor philosophers.
Mr. Gillespie composed a fragile, gossamer thing of iron, wood, copper and glass, lots of glass.
JM Barrie's story of "the little boy who would not grow up" is a gossamer thing.
It seems right that they should speak in some of Shakespeare's most gossamer-spun poetry, which they do with beguiling effortlessness.
Spun from the most gossamer-thin of ideas – a sketch really, stretched out to feature length – the film is as airy as they come, propelled along by a plot seemingly plucked from the 1920s in which it is set.
His voice is an ethereal, whispy, gossamer thing of beauty.
Most things do not matter.
