It's soulful yet grimey, futuristic and unpredictable, blending all the styles I love into one.
Beginning with the shifting sonic tapestry of "Radio Free Europe" (first released in 1981), R.E.M. drew on influences as various as the Byrds, the Velvet Underground, Big Star, Patti Smith, the Rolling Stones, and the New York Dolls to regale fans with albums fashioned from unpredictable blends of nonmetal rock and impressionistic folk.
They talk about "the K style," which is described as a volatile, unpredictable approach that blends the moral fervor of a crusader with the irascible tough-mindedness of an old-fashioned political boss.
Charles Ives was a master of the quirky and unpredictable, and his irreverent scores blend myriad idioms from the Western classical tradition to marching bands and hymns.
That sounds simple enough, but delve deeper, and Vargas is a complex talent who delicately blends his abilities into an exciting, but unpredictable mix.
Lee felt her heat, the afterglow of her unpredictable passions, most intensely in the piano room, which blended into the living room through a broad archway, with side pillars and ornate white stick-and-beadwork overhead.
Projecting an off-kilter blend of zaniness and pathos that suggests the unpredictable mood swings of a Renée Zellweger character, Ms. Brussell is a quick change artist who injects an element of surprise into everything she sings.
They blend documentary-like portions, wry commentary and antic comedy in unpredictable ways.
The score, in four movements, probes specific kinds of sound (mixed timbres, metals, keyboards and skins) in a blend of complexity and directness, with persistently repetitive sections offset by unpredictable bursts and sudden changes of direction.
Erica is by turns prickly, indecisive, uptight, vulnerable, self-assured and skittish: traits Ms. Keaton blends into a performance that is at once entirely coherent and dizzyingly unpredictable.
