Sentence:  Clark made the album with producer Jack Antonoff, current collaborator of choice for Taylor Swift and Lorde. His involvement didn't have a huge <WSD>aural</WSD> impact – the thrillingly disjointed but melodically gorgeous St Vincent sound remained intact – but his inclination for taking real-life trauma and fashioning it into pop took the album a step beyond Clark's previous work. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Of or pertaining to sound.