discordance

• Love to Make Music To's willful surface discordance -- in effect right off the bat as whimsical handclapping grin "Fair Weather Friends" jumps to the low-end growls and snarky, bad-by-design rhymes of Paperboy and Taz Arnold on "Touchstone" -- makes it one of those records not particularly suited for blogability and rapid digestion. —  Baltimore City Paper
• The Brodericks are the band's secret sibling weapons, providing moments of haunting discordance on "Heathen's Kiss" and delicate beauty on the heartbreaking "Different Gray." —  AltWeeklies.com Site Feed
• There's a couple of strange kind of moments in the music, with a little more experimentation and a little more discordance in the guitar perhaps. to post comments. —  Punknews.org
• A Blaffair to Rememblack work is its discordance - the individual parts are wildly bizarre, but the sum of them is like combining a Vanilla Frosty with McDonald's French fries. —  Pajiba
• This discordance was necessary because, at present, there is no Bayesian MCMC procedure for automatic assignment that treats dominant data properly (STRUCTURE accepts dominant data, but K must be determined manually), and methods for population structure inference are typically compared using co-dominant data. —  PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles

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