Dirk Serries - guitar drones (3 and 9)

Amid the tremolo-strummed guitar drones and looped drumbeats, the voices hold on to yearning despite every grim portent.

Through combinations of manual and electronic effects, he can make the guitar drone like bagpipes or glimmer like a harp.

The sound is characterized by pounding drums, highly distorted guitar drones, and falsetto vocals.

The album is a mix of guitar drone and spoken word pieces, and ending with a Sebadoh cover.

In both, the melody and propulsion of hard-rock collided with the stasis of guitar drones and dissonance.

Boyd Rice released several albums of noise, with guitar drones and tape loops creating a cacophony of repetitive sounds.

Layers of humming guitar drones and feedback combine to create a slowly rising and falling wave of hypnotic sound.

Miss Hemphill has honed her personal voice within a highly traditional style that's rhythmically complex and features winding modal melodies and hypnotic one-chord guitar drones.

But it is actually a laboratory for guitar drones, with and without the measured thud of Mr. Albini's drumbeats.