Production-wise, we wanted to keep the sound sparse yet enveloping," they say.
John croons a lonely song over the sounds of sparse drum machine and minimal guitars.
This song, which manages to sound both sparse and all-encompassing, builds nicely and hits hard, without ever crossing the line into self-conceit.
But it has also been a chance for the band to revisit its pioneering sound, a sparse but kinetic hybrid of reggae, punk and new wave that conquered charts and airwaves from the late 1970s to the mid-'80s.
The feeling of isolation is invoked so powerfully by the artful sound design (sparse use of music, echoing footsteps inside and the vertiginous rush of wind when you stand on the castle walls) that finding your companion and helpmate Yorda brings on an extraordinarily strong emotional attachment.
According to The Independent, West eschewed his customary hip hop sound for sparse, drum machine-based electropop.
Large-scale wind turbines are a relatively recent innovation, so the body of peer-reviewed research addressing the potential impacts of their unique brand of sound is sparse and particularly unsettled.
The dance is like that: it flows and flows, accompanied by sparse sounds of wind and water, coalescing into doodles and breathtaking shapes.
I'm inspired by the contemporary lyrical flow and sparse sounds of this beautiful young lady Lordes, and of course I return nightly to Etta James to keep me in check.
The spectrograms of harmonic sounds are typically sparse in frequency, as in narrowband sounds, whereas the spectrograms of percussive sounds are impulsive and are therefore typically sparse in time.
The songs on Coexist, which Edna Gundersen of USA Today categorized as indie pop, eschew melodic structure for minimalist dynamics and sparse sounds.
