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jangly

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The arrangement seems to track her movements like a camera, beginning with a jangly and optimistic guitar figure and acquiring heaviness and density as it goes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 6, 2026

Summed up by Pavlovic as "jangly guitars and chanted layered vocals", it's both richly harmonic and somewhat ramshackle - born of a decision to embrace spontaneity and leave studio mistakes intact.

From BBC • Jan. 5, 2026

Noseda didn’t exactly reconcile the solo and the jangly orchestral interludes that separate its verses, but the Fourth can be impenetrable in that way.

From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2024

Due out Aug. 11 on Zaragoza’s own label, Rebel River Records, her album “Hold That Spirit” is a torrential cloudburst of jangly folk catharsis.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 28, 2023

Miss Sadie in all her jangly regalia and Sister Redempta with her stark habit.

From "Moon Over Manifest" by Clare Vanderpool