"Laughing With," the album's first single, has a striking, dramatic melody but is hardly an easily digestible pop song.
Mr. Dorman, who is completing his doctorate at the Juilliard School, writes in an eclectic, essentially neo-Romantic style that combines striking melodies, free dissonance and occasional effects (tapping on the instruments for example) to create picturesque textures.
ALTHOUGH striking melodies are scattered among the composer's later musicals, they tend, like "Loving You" (from "Passion"), to be wistful fragments in a dense conceptual puzzle, rather than fleshed-out, stand-alone anthems.
Annie's sound is a balance of straight-up underground dance pop and striking melodies.
There are no striking melodies, either, although Dylan's written far more of those than a lot of people recognize.
In the Los Angeles Times review of the album, critic Todd Martens wrote: "The song's first guitar crush arrives after a lengthy ambient intro, and brings an electrifying jolt to the striking piano melody.
The evocations of its melody are striking, but no less than the jostling ecstasies that ensue.
The whispering conceals sturdy melodies and striking phrases ("Sodom, South Georgia, woke like a tree full of bees"), and although it's hard, at first, to fit it all together, each listen makes it easier to hear these luminous songs whole.
The music is equally striking, overlaying delicate Eastern folk melodies with Western beats and electronica, and cavernous production looms large.
At night, the weak lights and the melodies create a striking effect, tightly linked not only to the Roman Catholic but also to the cycles of peasant activity.
