percussive
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She recorded the new album with the same team — the hit-making writer-producers Ilya Salmanzadeh and Max Martin — but here they go for a murkier, more percussive sound to match Grande’s dark mood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
Computers and drum machines are used for nearly all the percussive elements.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
Its closing track, a harmonically suspended instrumental titled “The Brazilian,” flirted with the avant-garde by repeating the same anti-melody, anchored on a jungle of percussive clangs and hyperkinetic Simmons drum rolls.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2026
He arrived in New York City in the early 1960s, and by the age of 20 drew attention to his plays, a riot of percussive energy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
But it is important to distinguish between the first pair and the second: one deals with space and place; the other with percussive force.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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