gelidly

In places it sounds like an homage to the Modern Jazz Quartet: cool, clipped, gelidly beautiful.

Those lights of human intelligence losing human expression, gelidly protruding like the alien eyes of certain uncatalogued creatures of the deep.

At first, in a version of "For Heaven's Sake," the band sounded like a homage to the Modern Jazz Quartet: cool, clipped, gelidly beautiful.