dissonant

The young trio’s minimalist arrangements evoke the clang of downtown post-punk New York, while the new collection’s sly humor and deep well of hooks helped the dissonant turns go down easily.

The striking “Porcelana,” about enduring pain for fleeting pleasure, has a woozy, dissonant arrangement that mixes woodwinds, shrieking strings, and skittering percussion.

But the truth is dissonant, as Stokes pointed out.

No matter which side of the increasingly dissonant political divide we sit on, rage emanates from either end.

Experts say that the merger strikes a dissonant chord from a branding perspective too.