He says the group's songs are tuneful and their music is basically word-based.

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Since Eels' debut album in 1996, Everett has made moody rock music with rough edges and tuneful melodies.

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The overall character of his score is tuneful but not saccharine, daring enough to feel modern without being dauntingly intense.

ECONOMIST: Contemporary opera

As you might guess from the band's name, The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger makes songs that are ornate, fanciful, tuneful and unusual.

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But, after hearing Maurice Chevalier sing the tuneful trifle, Donnez Moi La Main Mamz'elle Et Ne Dites Rien, he announced that he too wanted to be a "chansonnier".

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Dads play a strain of emo that has been going through resurgence in the national underground punk scene, and their messy yet tuneful songs offer a solid exemplar of the burgeoning sound.

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What opera-goers seem to want is the tried and trusted formula which attracts them to the operatic classics not media images, post-modern playfulness, overt politics or heavy symbolism, but a compelling human story, a gripping plot and a varied but fundamentally tuneful score.

ECONOMIST: Contemporary opera