Sentence examples for retro tone from inspiring English sources

The retro tone of New York rock could be seen as strategic.

The settings have a retro tone, but Ms. Coppola isn't trying to be Macy Gray or Amy Winehouse.

dreamlandmargate.com The retro tone is everywhere in the Georgian streets, a gull's cry back from the beach.

The brothers stressed that while they want to retain the fun retro tone of the first season, it will be markedly different and darker.

Star Wars creator George Lucas has criticised the "retro" tone of new episode The Force Awakens, with which he had no creative involvement.

Absent much in the way of critical support (the Guardian's own Peter Bradshaw was particularly damning), the highly specific retro tone presented a marketing challenge for backers Momentum Pictures.

So-called "chillwave" bands that emerged in 2009 and gained momentum in 2010, like Neon Indian and Washed Out, set their synthesizers for retro tones and repetition — musically not all that different, despite what they may be mumbling in their lyrics, from more mainstream pop and hip-hop.

But while they are based on historical instruments and aim for retro tones, they are meant to be played, said Martin artist relations coordinator Scott Follweiler. .

The body is wooden (in natural veneer or piano-lacquer white, red or black) for richness of tone and the sort of retro look one might expect from a 68-year-old radio company.

"Smile" is so retro in tone and scope it even feels like it should be on vinyl: you can imagine a thick gatefold sleeve, the dusty white outline of a circle impressed into the cover.

His photographs of these mini-setups, along with rustic windmills, covered wagons, sailboats and such, are given a romantic, retro look through photogravure: making high-quality prints in rich tones by using an etched copper plate and printer's ink.