Articles: New Vocabulary. Throughout a class of genres and micro-genres, there seems to be a new musical vocabulary emerging, one centered around the way vocals are being manipulated to create moods and atmospheres defined by their amorphous, often spectral nature. Ghost voices. It's something like what happened in the film Inception, the way music could be heard through layers of dreams. That effect-- as though sound were floating through several walls of consciousness, its outlines blurred to be almost unidentifiable-- has something to do with the fact that we've heard a lot of these vocals before in their original form; they're often samples that have been resurrected and re-articulated to express a sort of new slang.
You can hear it in dance music and hypnagogic pop, in witch house, drone, and art rock, the various presentations just as disparate as they are interconnected. Burial"Ghost Hardware" "Ghost Hardware" is built with the same fogged-up parts that comprise much of Untrue. Mount Kimbie "Maybes" FACT magazine: music and art. Music news, Listings, Reviews, Reaction, Interviews and Community. Pitchfork: Home. Metacritic - Movie Reviews, TV Reviews, Game Reviews, and Music Reviews. Consequence of Sound.
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