When writing about music is easy to use adjectives that mean nothing when in fact you do not know what to say. One of them, socorridÃsimo by critics, is the elegant , if in common terms is not easy to define, in musical terms is worse. Ah, but what good is the criticism saying that so and so make a very elegant music!
Dictionaries define the elegance as a combination of distinction, taste and simplicity, which I turn could pose a dialectic spiral in which I will not get it just want to talk about a song by Bloc Party I can only describe as elegant .
"Tulips" is based on a Bm7 arpeggio on practically the whole song takes on whether wind, less than a coda that becomes luminous upon landing in D major. The riff of this arpeggio is maintained throughout the piece giving it consistency.
The trick is, largely, in the administration of musical resources and the movement from below that gets the same arpeggio notes become extensions and therefore in color.
modal environment allows such games and shows that musicians are a quartet Bloc Party eminently "rocker" who knows how to go beyond the chords with the guitar distortion and fundamental to pound on the bass: no expression in the harmony, the pursuit of a more original or less energy without losing the essence of basic rock band.
The structure of rock songs is extremely rigid, especially when there is a label that wants to economic performance, but also has a dramatic reason for being. In reality it is nothing new and usually gives a concise form and musical ideas. "Tulips" is no exception, and yet it is handled sensitively: the verses are not equal to each other, and neither are the choruses because they are framed in a general crescendo that leads the entire piece, from the intro battery until the final bound in D major which is the climax of the song while the voice sings "you're the one I love."
remove intelligence under the first verse and the subtlety with which you entered or the dynamics of the coda are witnesses of musicality and sensitivity to time to fix.
also grateful for the battery, without straying too far from the usual patterns found some originality and is functional enough to keep the whole thing. I also like that syncopation finish their rolls in the style of Sly Dunbar.
Finally, Bloc Party is allowed to play most style groups seem unable to conceive of making it a fairly unique: a genre so full of testosterone, the extensions of the chords and bass tones changed women seeking giving a special balance to the music without filling of affectation; this, added to the group spends too many production tricks and displayed as it is, get distinction its intrinsic simplicity thanks to skill and good taste of your arrangement.
To me that's elegance.
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