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The prize recognises "their contribution to the world of pop music, including the groundbreaking sonic and visual spectacles they create for their fans".

We listened in rapt, reverential awe, cozied by Vienna’s velvet strings, velvet winds and velvet brass woven together in a perfect tapestry of lush sonic textures and instrumental colors.

The “Black AF” star praised the sonic superstar while asserting that his music — and all of his work — was “a channel for his love.”

He even instructed sound engineer Bruce Swedien to create a drum sound with a "sonic personality" that no-one had ever heard before.

What she pulls off instead on “Patterns,” which came out Friday, is a pair of difficult tricks: She writes about personal growth with a degree of emotional acuity most songwriters reserve for heartbreak and she makes room for sonic and structural innovations within an unabashedly commercial country-music framework.