A lot of people have misinterpreted that, thinking that he's going to sound old and frail on this record, but for that song he wanted to sound vulnerable.
E. Alan Silver's recording job, done in the echoey Tarrytown Music Hall in Tarrytown, N.Y., made these short, decorous, formally worked-out variations on jazz standards and on Mr. Lewis's own compositions sound vulnerable; in a metaphorical way, the recording makes you aware that Mr. Lewis's vision is much larger than a single record can intimate.
The Emersons, who were still shaken by the event, sounded vulnerable, not quite in control, and thus came even closer to the heart of the music than they have on their usual brilliant nights.
On Home, she sounds vulnerable when she sings: "I've been homeless, hopeless with no address/till my heart, you chose," and you feel the joy beneath the bleakness.
The singer sounds vulnerable and the song is sad, but halfway through we hear the comforting and familiar Beatle harmony and sweet handclaps we first heard on "I Want to Hold Your Hand".
In his hands, Autotune is a weapon, not a gimmick: ironically for a device used to dehumanise the singer, it makes him sound more vulnerable, as though playing smoke and mirrors with his own emotions.
Mr. Hancock's arrangements make singers stretch; his shifting tempos for Paul Simon's "I Do It for Your Love" make Mr. Simon sound more vulnerable, and more quietly daring, than the original version did.
Josh, does this album sound more vulnerable than his previous stuff so far?
She sounded so vulnerable, like a completely different person to the shouting busybody we all knew.
In that single utterance, and a few since, Fury sounded as vulnerable as were (and are) three other heavyweights of recent times: Frank Bruno, Mike Tyson and Oliver McCall.
But at Tuesday's opening night show, her voice was little more than a wobbly squeak that sounded especially vulnerable when applied to a four-song medley from "South Pacific".
