The songs revolve around the melodies — big, spectral, swooping things — and the words are secondary to the feelings they evoke. Often when singing, Vernon lands on cryptic words: “acrost,” “melic,” “noachide” and so forth. The meaning is in the melody, the texture, the implication. “I’m not really asking you to hear what I’m saying too much,” he said, “because I would have spoken the words harder.’
