plangent

In an era of plangent indie rock, they were the studied, intricate eccentrics.

Adjuah sings in a keening, plangent tone, but at one point he pauses to offer a spoken invitation: “Listen to the wind,” he says.

A clear highlight was “Amelia,” a plangent, airy meditation on freedom and flight.

She shushed her daughters, sloshing in nearby mud, so she could tease out the source of some plangent rumble.

In the three decades since his diagnosis, he has released about 100 records — gentle suites of forlorn melodies, relentless spans of plangent notes, and, most recently, sprawling drifts of ghostly tones.