hiss

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Play Under The Rain or Breathe Again and you'll hear a telltale hiss running throughout the tracks.

From BBC • Jan. 16, 2026

Insults hit her with a knife-like hiss of air; fresh schemes get her charging around to Hildur Guðnadóttir’s tumultuous, percussive score.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 22, 2025

“Not My World” is one of the better tracks on the record because it leans minimal, letting the hiss and click of the rhythm bump against a buzzing synth that almost risks irritation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 21, 2025

It sounds like "a descending scream, a deep roar and a final growing hiss," he reported.

From Salon • Jun. 3, 2025

The serpent’s face snaps to the side, and it gives a gruesome hiss in response.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer