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The song packs multiple contrasts into less than four minutes, including a North African-flavored modal fiddle riff, two rapped sections with different flows, an interlude of choirlike harmonies, a resolute march and plenty of handclaps.

From New York Times • Jul. 1, 2022

In “On,” she stacks up choirlike vocals as she moves on from a romance: “We can’t go forward,” she decides, as a double time club beat ticks quietly behind her.

From New York Times • Aug. 28, 2020

In “Dream Dream Away,” it takes nearly three minutes of contemplative, slowly strummed guitar and abstract reverberation before Mr. McNew muses, in choirlike vocal harmonies, “Why cry? Why try? It’s all the same.”

From New York Times • Mar. 14, 2018

But as he sings “Rocking you to sleep, from the Otherside,” the heavens suddenly open up with a cathedral-size chord, shimmering percussion and choirlike vocal harmonies, a paradise of pop artifice.

From New York Times • May 3, 2017

Its finale, “Treasure” was choirlike and reverential, insisting that “treasure is measured in units of love.”

From New York Times • Sep. 6, 2015