“By now, most people with even a couple bars’ familiarity with tUnE-yArDs knows that Merrill Garbus’s schtick is twisting and playing her voice like an endlessly versatile instrument: synthesizer, siren, and stock-sound database in one. What separates this from shtick or a capella-troupe novelty is how she imbues her skill with a range of emotions, distilling them to their purest, most precisely ex”
