Drawing from their debut disc, "Absolute Zero, " it displayed four-part vocal harmonies and a knack for arrangement, as guitars chimed under and around the voices.
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Subsequently picked up by an indie label for 2005's Easy Beat, the group won raves for its fascinating combination of psychedelic pop hooks and Beach Boys-esque vocal harmonies.
It was also the first time that I had heard 'Cathy's Clown' played on the radio and I was enthralled by the tight vocal harmonies and the crescendo passages.
From The Beach Boys and The Zombies to Grizzly Bear and Fleet Foxes, nothing makes a pop song sunnier than layer upon layer of vocal harmonies.
The album is filled with the kind of uplifting melodies and sweet vocal harmonies that sound pleasant and unobjectionable, but the resulting songs sometimes sound treacly and are often quite dull.
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Yet all five members produced remarkably cohesive vocal harmonies.
American Radass is filled with noodly guitar riffs, propulsive drumming, and a healthy heaping of plaintive, strained vocal harmonies: At times it sounds rather crude, but Dads often manage to streamline their catharsis into sharp, smart songs.
But such concerns were quickly dispelled once the folk-rock trio's trademark intricate vocal harmonies and acoustic and electric guitar parts were enhanced by the JLCO's tight ensemble playing and skilled soloists such as saxophonists Sherman Irby, trumpeter Marcus Printup and trombonist Vincent Gardner.
On its first two albums, Sweden's Shout Out Louds followed a similar formula by updating the dour post-punk of bands like The Cure and Joy Division with ragged guitar riffs, clean production and girl-boy vocal harmonies from singers Bebban Stenborg and Adam Olenius.
Vincent, Merrill Garbus's Tune-Yards and Laura Marling, who added a cello and brass to her retro-folk sound, presented polished, high-concept chamber pop, as did Other Lives, who impressed with melodramatic baroque folk featuring strings, orchestral synths and vocal harmonies in support of the quietly charismatic singer Jesse Tabish.
The quartet Alt-J, whose "An Awesome Wave" won last year's Mercury Prize as Britain's best album, did much with little on stage as odd two-part vocal harmonies, a gently picked electric guitar, lush synth lines and syncopated percussion coalesced into a distinctive blend that united folk, prog rock, electronica, show tunes and hip-hop.
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