A haunting, questioning duo between the two strings turned into dissonant, Shostakovichian angst, followed by a soft piano interlude with shimmering, impressionistic whirls of color.
In addition, long, mellow and soft interludes that echo the smooth R&B style, hugely famous during the 1990s, is an important part of Mars' shows.
Using dynamic extremes from ppp to ffff, Mr. Boreyko effectively contrasted the soft, lyrical interludes with the violent eruptions.
But broken up by softer, synthy interludes, the track contains moments of delicateness; moments emphasised by the white-washed landscape of ghostly boulders, waterfalls and earthy scrub the video is set against.
The eXile was shuttered in the first month of the relatively soft Dmitry Medvedev interlude following Vladimir Putin's second term in office.
Soft, Latin-inflected acoustic guitar and gentle animated interludes from Gerard, an interviewee, establish the film's quiet, conciliatory mood.
Sonic Youth's feedback interludes between songs; the guitarist Dave Pajo playing soft circular rock ragas with his project Papa M; the revived version of the early-'70s Neu, with the guitarist Michael Roether, playing the flowing-and-halting motorik rhythm; and the instrumental band Tortoise, playing wide swaths of guitar and vibraphone harmony on that same rhythm template.
His band dropped not one, but two interludes borrowed from Earth, Wind and Fire, and the music only once leaned back on the soft click of a drum machine pattern.
Live, these are softer, warmer, and the close, often a capella, harmonies with other band members are richly delivered on tracks like 'Interlude 1' and 'Ms'.
The album has such a soft touch that it might be easy to get lost in its lulling sounds, if not for the narrative interludes that Solange deploys between nearly every song.
