The fade-out often gets dismissed as the lazy way out. But the - TopicsExpress

Sara John

The fade-out often gets dismissed as the lazy way out. But the best ones often deploy slight change-ups to recharge the listener’s attention milliseconds before all goes silent: the music box sounds introduced over the ethereal fade-out of 10cc’s “I’m Not in Love,” for example, or the bass flutes that take unexpected prominence at the end of “Caroline, No.” It can even prompt a reconsideration of the song itself. The Talking Heads’ “Life During Wartime” fades not on an instrumental groove or a repeating chorus but with David Byrne singing an entirely new verse. It makes you wonder: “Just how many more lyrics are there to this song?” (That is, until an alternate version was released in —not that many, it turns out.)

Posted on: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 13:45:12 +0000

The fade-out often gets dismissed as the lazy way out. But the - TopicsExpress

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