There's also a humanity in Burgess's soft and delicate vocal that makes the show feel personal.
It was his half-cracked vocal that really got me – it seems too soulful for his years.
"I just find when [the crowd] is extremely noisy and vocal, that helps me," he said recently.
Perhaps, even with her mellifluous, butter wouldn't melt vocal, that would have been too much for the man upstairs.
It's a recurring theme: no florid lyrical conceits, but an appealingly wavering vocal that still hits its marks.
On 'Weekend Wars', all saloon pianos and cinematic string swirls, VanWyngarden unleashes a vocal that wouldn't have sounded out of place coming from Crazy Horse.
One, the title track, summarizes the album's haunted theme with a noirish piano part and a scratchy vocal that sounds like a lonely late-night radio transmission.
He described mainstream pop, aimed at a teenage audience, as "a computer and a vocal that was doctored to goodness knows how much".
There's also a soulful vocal that is variously sped-up and slowed down, and overall it approaches the sombre feel of James Blake's "blubstep".
But some shiny-bright arpeggios and a vocal that sounds like Matt from Bros in a dreamy moment is surely some recompense!
Halfway into the tune the alto saxophonist Donald Harrison — a k a Big Chief Harrison, of the Congo Nation tribe of Mardi Gras Indians — belted a call-and-response vocal that was pure New Orleans.
