With a righteous introduction from MC Smokes, this mesmeric live performance puts tough rhythms and sonorous keyboards to the fore, alongside the exhortations of the Tyson brothers.
Chris Willman of the Los Angeles Times said of "This Time Around", "a tough, rhythm-guitar-driven track co-written and co-produced by hit-maker Dallas Austin that sports one of the album's better grooves".
'N Sync hoped that tougher rhythms and a hint of self-consciousness would prolong its heyday, with a single, "Pop," that was promoted by a Pop Art-influenced video about short-lived fashions and relentless marketing.
When he resumed, his tack was more harmonically restive, and driven by tough, grinding rhythm.
Carroll Thompson Hopelessly in Love (1981) The debut album by the Queen of Lovers' Rock captures this maligned genre at its height, when scores of London singers, mainly female, allied soul vocals to tough reggae rhythms and forlorn melodies.
Appearing on the soundtrack of Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey in 1991, The Perfect Crime gave Faith No More fans the tiniest glimpse of what to expect next, with its tough circular rhythms, hypnotic clanging bell and Patton's voice sounding harder and more assured.
Chris Willman of Entertainment Weekly was complimentary towards Timbaland, producer of the song, writing that Timbaland offers "tougher, trickier rhythms, minimal live playing, a plethora of hip-hop cameos, and a self-consciously hard, edgy club sensibility" to "SexyBack".
Together, they're a formidable force in bridging the gap between dubstep, the toughest grime rhythms, and the UK-via-Jamaica soundsystem culture to which both of those genres owe a huge debt.
A Place to Bury Strangers, current holders of the title "loudest band in New York," beefs up the guitar drones of classic Jesus and Mary Chain and My Bloody Valentine with a tough and dexterous rhythm section, a rarity among similar neo-dreampop acts.
(Chinen) ★ Henry Threadgill's Zooid (Saturday) Mr. Threadgill, a penetrating saxophonist, flutist and composer, has long been a maestro of unconventional timbres, bristling counterpoint and tough but slippery rhythms.
