The woozy High by the Beach does glide along over a trap-influenced beat, but sounds as drugged and disorientated as the title implies.
This pertains, in the show, to large, scrawled abstract drawings, cut out in woozy shapes, by Ossorio, a hit-or-miss artist who was a close friend of Pollock's and aspired to a similarly liberated, but histrionically primitivist, style.
Nevertheless, that seems a small price to pay for having this many ideas flying past you at a breathless pace: funk decorated with autoharp; chaotic, sprawling guitar topped with Jerry Lee Lewis piano; a Dusty Springfieldish ballad augmented by woozy, off-kilter strings; an instrumental influenced by Broadcast.
He sang outrageously well, over woozy, narcotized rock by his stellar band, which was dressed all in black (and had the requisite stunning female bassist).
Last year, he released "Dr. Alex Paterson's Journey Into Paradise" (Liquid Sound Design), a compilation of woozy remixes inspired by dub reggae.
This long-running indie-rock band (though signed to a major label) from Idaho can turn even a four-minute love song into grand, woozy epic, fueled by swirls of guitar noise.
Musically it's closer to the bluesy alt-rock of 2003's You Are Free than the Memphis grooves of 2006's The Greatest, but aided by woozy, expansive production many of these songs shimmer with warmth and light.
By the end of the festival, we'll all be humming it in our sleep: the opening of Aquarium, the seventh movement of Camille Saint-Saëns' suite The Carnival of the Animals – a dreamy, woozy melody played by strings and flute over a rippling piano glissando.
His new album, streaming in full below, is an experiment in the woozy sensation evoked by waltz's 3/4 time signature.
Scott Plagenhoef of Pitchfork Media referred to the songs as a "dozen slices of stylish, sophisticated electro-pop, crisp tracks that move between the fizzy and the woozy, all anchored by Annie's breathy (sometimes almost muted) vocals".
