lushness

In place of velvet and luxuriant lushness, there was fixating intensity and raw power.

Chasing down a comment on male-imposed expectations — and, more subtly, self-imposed ones — her macro lens swaddles everything in consumable lushness.

The songs often morph through multiple changes of tempo and texture, riffling unpredictably through indie-rock austerity, orchestral lushness, pop perkiness and hallucinatory electronic studio concoctions, like the cascade of wavery, overlapping piano lines in “Connect.”

They speak of the lushness that once blessed this corner of southwestern Afghanistan.

It evokes enough of that period, the lushness and quietness, that it’s genuinely that article.