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  • The appropriately titled Dead Guitars sees those instruments glitched and phased into near-oblivion, their riffs reborn as weird digital signatures; on Airless, a gorgeous, faraway vocal hook undergoes a similar process amid a creepy haze of scratches and squalls.

    Seefeel: Seefeel - review 2011

  • Airless, windowless, stuffed with men and machinery, Flag Plot reeked of a strange stew of smells: the acrid odor of radio tubes; the ever-present, bittersweet warship smell of paint, lubricants, and a sealing solution called Cosmoline mingled with tobacco smoke and male sweat.

    Sea of Thunder Evan Thomas 2006

  • Airless, windowless, stuffed with men and machinery, Flag Plot reeked of a strange stew of smells: the acrid odor of radio tubes; the ever-present, bittersweet warship smell of paint, lubricants, and a sealing solution called Cosmoline mingled with tobacco smoke and male sweat.

    Sea of Thunder Evan Thomas 2006

  • Captain Arless “Airless” Handshaw had been pulling alert for the last four hours, and he was getting pretty sick of it.

    Terror At Dawn Douglass, Keith 2003

  • Airless put the F-15 into a hard turn, banking toward the target.

    Terror At Dawn Douglass, Keith 2003

  • “Better than nothing,” Airless said again, still feeling a slight sense of disappointment.

    Terror At Dawn Douglass, Keith 2003

  • Might be playing possum — but Airless would have to check it out.

    Terror At Dawn Douglass, Keith 2003

  • Airless swung around for the final pass, transferring his finger to the weapons selector switch.

    Terror At Dawn Douglass, Keith 2003

  • Airless, it stood sharp-edged athwart the stars, but the illuminated side was nearly a blank, even at first and last quarter when shadows were long.

    Inconstant Star Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1991

  • Airless, silent, the metallic landscape rose against the distant mottled black like a gleaming promise of perfect order.

    Tides Of Light Benford, Gregory, 1941- 1989

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