Endorsed by fellow Danes Iceage, Lower's aggressive sound recalls punk legends Black Flag.
It was electric and rhythmically straightforward, with a sound recalling the Chicago bands of the 1960's.
Their guitar sound recalls the pealing of U2's the Edge crossed with an arpeggiating Jamaican steel pan.
The group's sound recalls Southern rock, the "outlaw country" of Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings, and Phish-style jamming, anchored by Mr. Canada's raspy voice and overdriven solos.
Rebello's mini-tour finds him teamed up with bassist Arnie Somogyi and drummer Stephen Keogh, heavyweight musicians whose thrusting, tumbling sound recalls the partnership of Jimmy Garrison and Elvin Jones in John Coltrane's quartet.
Comprising and named after friends Rebecca and Rebekah, their bass-heavy sound recalls the nocturnal groove of Jessie Ware and Kelela, and forms what they describe as a "post-disco-80s-R&B".
The moving line is often backed by a drone note -- he loves playing his open bottom string -- and the sound recalls the slow, deliberate movement of notes, as well as the bottom-end drone, in white Appalachian gospel music.
You can hear echoes of European techno - bizarrely enough, Konono No 1's amplified likembes sound not unlike Underworld's 1994 hit Rez - and rock: their repetitiousness brings Krautrock to mind, their rhythms are pure Bo Diddley and the sheer intensity of their sound recalls White Light/ WhiteHeat-era Velvet Underground.
Their sound recalls the reply of Manfred Eicher, the head of ECM Records and Tomasz Stańko's producer for the past 20 years, when I once asked him to define the essence of Polish jazz: "A certain kind of melancholy that cries out, and certain kinds of intonations and colours".
Producers Max Martin and Dr Luke's huge processed beats and squeaky sound recalls Linda Perry's work with Pink, while Ke$ha sings about every other teenage girl's dream: non-stop partying with no pants on, brushing her teeth in Jack Daniel's and shouting "Dinosaur!" at predatory old men.
