Around this time, The Jam slimmed their team of two producers to one, Vic Coppersmith-Heaven, who helped develop the group's sound with harmonised guitars and acoustic textures.
Ray's biographer notes that "Only Welles similarly tried to define acoustic and even verbal textures as much as the visual."
The song was unusually aggressive for Genesis at the time, as most of their work consisted of soft, pastoral acoustic textures and poetic lyrics.
Later when The Jam slimmed their team of two producers down to one, the then-renamed Coppersmith-Heaven had developed the group's sound with harmonised guitars and acoustic textures.
The two-part, evening-length work proved to be an elaborate and very loud exploration of percussive texture - both acoustic and electronic.
For the opera section, Mr. Krakauer recorded brief samples of operatic singing, usually single notes, and wove them into a wild, unpredictable blend of electronic and acoustic textures.
Goulding's intriguing blend of intelligent lyrics, melodies incorporating both acoustic and electronic textures, and overall catchiness mark her as one British success likely to be welcomed Stateside with open arms.
Politics, the follow-up to Four Corners, returned to more acoustic textures.
Natalie Walker's third studio album is a captivating blend of electronic and acoustic textures as a foundation for her richly expressive vocals.
The electric and acoustic textures are more unified; drum synthesizers and sampling devices have added richness to the orchestral sound, giving Mr. Coleman a broader palette of colors to paint with.