Nine performances that start with almost nothing and end with everyone playing at once. The build is the point, not the hook.
Kanye West - Jesus Walks (Version 2)
KanyeWestVEVO
martial drums alone, then the choir finally shows up
Kanye West - Diamonds From Sierra Leone (Stripped)
KanyeWestVEVO
strings enter one at a time, then swallow the room
Kanye West - Blame Game (VEVO Presents: G.O.O.D. Music) ft. John Legend
KanyeWestVEVO
a whisper of a hook opens into a full wound
Kendrick Lamar - Father Time ft. Sampha (Live on SNL)
KendrickLamarVEVO
opens on Sampha's piano alone, then the SNL band floods in
Robert Plant: Tiny Desk Concert
NPR Music
the band tiptoes in until it's a wall of sound
Billy Strings: Tiny Desk Concert
NPR Music
one guitar becomes five, then a runaway train
Ghost-Note: Tiny Desk Concert
NPR Music
a single groove multiplies until the whole desk shakes
City of the Sun - Twenty Twenty One | Audiotree Live
Audiotree
three strings start soft, end somewhere else entirely
Queens of the Stone Age - Spinning In Daffodils (Live on KEXP)
KEXP
opens patient, ends feral, never once looks back
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