airless

Its culture stretches to an archaeological museum which is airlessly, claustrophobically breath-taking.

Cramped by the beat and the strings or synth washes hovenng airlessly, it's no wonder that even the best of soul's descendants, like Ashford and Simpson, Freddy Jackson, Whitney Houston and Anita Baker, have been reduced to either brandishing their vocal bravura in a stifling near-vacuum or fitting themselves into increasingly mechanistic productions.