Sentence:  Their songs are mercurial, exhilarating structures with angular, leaping vocal lines from David Longstreth, cooing female vocal harmonies and <WSD>pointillistic</WSD> guitar patterns that do with Congolese soukous what Steve Reich did with Ghanian drumming: analyze, formalize and layer on new, dizzying convolutions. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Having the minimalistic, analytical character associated with pointillism.