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“I’m so sorry, so sorry,” Verlaine sings, offering a desperate apology amid a crossfire of guitars and drums — knife-edged single notes, barbed lines, implacable offbeats — that don’t promise any forgiveness.

From New York Times • Jan. 29, 2023

Danalogue uses 1980s synthesizers for plump bass tones and upward swoops; Betamax mixes drums and drum machines, constantly accenting different offbeats.

From New York Times • Sep. 23, 2022

They had a taste for the kind of syncopation that perpetually discovers new offbeats in tracks like Negoleiros do Ritmo’s “Lemba” and Elias Dia Kimuezo’s “Chamavo.”

From New York Times • Dec. 30, 2013

Bass lines lope and skulk, the drums sputter with offbeats, and rhythm guitar and keyboards share a flippant, cackling cross talk, like wiseguys in the back of a high school classroom.

From New York Times • Jul. 29, 2013

Cycling rhythm is pace of life Beats in peace, offbeats facing strife.

From Truth and the Myth : Couplets quips by Narayanan, A. R.