The engineer also helped the band with advice about what other groups their evolving work sounded like.
If the work sounds strange, well, that is not unusual.
I think your work sounds fascinating, and you were always fond of horses.
An early comment that their work sounded "like garbage" inspired the band's name.
The work, brought to an exciting quick close, sounded completely mature.
The flaws are gone, and the work sounds completely harmonious.
The result was that the work itself sounded rather skimpy; a disappointment.
The instructions referred to how the work should sound and how it might be created but were not a score as such.
His work sounds peculiar to many people, and that is all right.
Even when there is a surface excitement to the music, a frenetic modern work can sound as though it's not going anywhere.