breathy

The track’s busy atmosphere reduces to just her breathy voice and airy washes of synth played by her partner, Tashi Wada.

“You know, I was wondering if you could keep on,” Jackson murmurs over a strutting bass line in his breathy spoken introduction, “because the force, it’s got a lot of power, and it make me feel like …” Then the 20-year-old unleashes the high-pitched squeal that let everybody know this former kiddie star had become a man.

Last month she released a self-titled album of her own, with her breathy vocals against atmospheric indie-folk arrangements à la Boygenius or Lizzy McAlpine.

His voice breaks the surface with a breathy, smoldering whisper.

The way Roan performed it Sunday — breathy and yearning yet with a faint snarl — it was all of those.