On Thursday, he released a moody lyric video for the plaintive ballad featuring footage from the film, which stars Lucas Hedges and Nicole Kidman.
That all changed a couple weeks ago when he released "Real Friends," a plaintive ballad featuring Ty Dolla $ign, followed up by "No More Parties in LA," a six-minute track in which Kanye and Kendrick Lamar rapped uninterrupted over a beat from Madlib, who specializes in the sort of dusty, boom-bap psychedelia that lands just left of hip-hop's center.
So when it came time to make a video for "Who the Waves Are Roaring For" — a haunting track from his latest solo album, "New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light," that features plaintive, distorted vocals from Bon Iver's Justin Vernon — he got in touch with the duo.
HANDS OFF!" The three musicians had reached the slow movement of the Schubert, which opens with one of the most famous inventions in chamber music: softly marching chords on the piano, a plaintive cello melody featuring a repeated trill.
Prominent in the civil rights movement and the struggle against the Vietnam War, Peter, Paul and Mary included protest songs in a repertoire that also featured plaintive ballads and children's songs such as Yarrow's "Puff (the Magic Dragon)," which often is mistakenly interpreted as drug-related.
The second ad also featured plaintive eyes.
Carried by Becca Stevens, the yearning "Our Basement (ed)" balances Akinmusire's trumpet flares with an elliptical structure reminiscent of that of Kate Bush, and the plaintive "Ceaseless Inexhaustible Child (cyntonia brown)" features U.K-based singer-songwriter Cold Specks, who soars against a spare rhythm.
Repeater units, stationed under the stairs or in hallways, to bounce signals from router to device offered a certain amount of relief, but if you search online you'll find endless pages featuring the plaintive cries of good, brave people who've tried and failed to configure them to work properly.
The soundtrack, described in a 1995 issue of The Village Voice as "at once plaintive and exhilarating", is featured in The Guardians 2007 list of 50 greatest film soundtracks.
The record's closing track, the slow-burning and plaintive number "Wide Open", featuring American shapeshifter Beck, has just received video treatment almost half a year after its release.
In no way a masterpiece, it remains a diverting 20 minutes of music, written in a manner that is folkish but refined, featuring a hauntingly plaintive Andante as its centerpiece.
