Landing Ground's originality and integrity still sound startling a year after its release.
Coming after such musical adventures, the familiar "Appassionata" sounded startling and wild.
Even if you haven't slept through the last few weeks, the words still sound startling and strange, despite the blanketing coverage.
On the CD those heraldic blasts are a friendly introduction, but on Monday night they sounded startling, like a one-man alarm clock, gleefully blasting away.
That may not sound startling: scientists describe about 50 new species every day.
That may sound startling, but consider how PS2 games were often expected to cost about 20% more to develop than PS1.
This San Francisco band sounds as startling and dissonance-crazy as ever, despite Satomi Matsuzaki's stronger presence as lead singer.
If the album has a rallying cry, it is "Just fucking kill me," delivered with what sounds like startling sincerity, despite the jaunty bass line.
Complementing Miles's sounds, the startling minimalist furniture design of Charles and Ray Eames and the space-age architecture of Richard Neutra and Rudolph M. Schindler added to the unmistakable West Coast aesthetic.
Ergo, the idea that Microsoft would pay $8.5 billion for the same company less than two years later sounds, uh, startling.
