"These Are My Twisted Words" has a two-and-half-minute intro of shifting drumbeats and droney, overlapping guitars — a jam in 5/4 time — before Mr. Yorke floats in, wondering, "When are you coming back?/I just can't stand it".
There are overlapping tremolo guitar lines that often resemble obscure mathematical patterns.
Many of Real Estate's songs are ambivalent remembrances of a comfortable suburban upbringing in "sweet Jersey, back where I long to be"; they swim in rippling, overlapping, reverbed guitar lines that somehow bridge the Eagles and Television, simultaneously unhurried and tensile.
The single starts with a nauseous series of overlapping electric guitar lines that wouldn't sound too out of place on a Fennesz piece, before congealing into something even more wonderfully sickly.
"This is how I tell it/ O' but it's long," Jeff Tweedy sang to begin "One Sunday Morning," a prodigal-son tale that has a Grateful Dead lilt, a folky instrumental refrain and jam-band tendrils of overlapping piano and guitar.
Soon after came the new album's "Cirice," representing the band at its most dynamic, with overlapping creep-show guitars (like a slowed down "For Whom the Bell Tolls" by Metallica) and crushing beat.
The emotional resonance typical of Picasso's work is largely absent in these endless variations on guitars and overlapping pieces of paper.Still, one doesn't have to like each study to appreciate Picasso's zeal in shattering artistic convention.
Martin spliced the sound of a chicken clucking at the end of the track to overlap with a guitar being tuned in the next one, making a seamless transition between the two songs.
Then other layers materialized from two more guitars, bass and drums: overlapping arpeggios, brief melodic lines, drumbeats that tapped lightly and grew increasingly martial and, sooner or later, the frenetic shimmer of tremolo-strummed chords.
Guitars and keyboards take varying paths through each song, gathering for dynamic swells that grow overwhelming, and overlapping in ways that only appear to be serendipitous.
