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• slow, acoustic gtr picking – fret buzz
• bass note on last chord of pattern
• shuffling background noise adds atmosphere – is it a loop?
• vox enter, doubled and harmony
• crackling ‘percussion’ enters – vinyl surface noise as rhythm
• no spoken word samples
• 2 mins in, dble vox overlaps a bit like a round
• great lyric
• after vox finish; extra melodic inst (elct gtr?)
• crackling increases

KEY IDEAS to plunder

1. shuffling background noise adds atmosphere – is it a loop?
2. crackling ‘percussion’ – vinyl surface noise as rhythm

• plucking, delay, gtr rhythm
• chords and vox together, on 1s
• acst gtr picking fades in
• percussion enters
• builds to crescendo
• no spoken word samples
• strings at the end

KEY IDEAS to plunder

1. plucking, delay, gtr rhythm
2. chords and vox together, on 1s

• starts with spoken sample
• rhythmic sfx
• bass loop, 3/4
• lots of sfx
• phone ringing sfx
• break, then switches to 4/4
• layers of spoken word samples

KEY IDEAS to plunder

1. layers of spoken word samples, overlapping
2. switching from 3/4 to 4/4 and back again

• elct gtr picking, kick, 4/4
• 2nd gtr riff joins, in 3s
• gtr riff in 3s against a 4/4 rhythm
• vox enters
• bass enters 2nd verse
• percussion builds
• only one spoken word segment in the middle ‘never, never, never etc’
• sfx – sounds like horses on cobblestones
• some sfx after break, rhythmic atmos
• final section, removes melodic inst., leaves heavy percussion and ripping sfx

KEY IDEAS to plunder

1. gtr riff in 3s against a 4/4 rhythm
2. ripping sfx beat, rhythmic atmos

• spoken word/found sound
  journalist narrates a live painting event
• backing music kicks in after 8 seconds
• percussion and 2 chord pattern
• bass gtr runs, wooden percussion?
• music cuts right on the final word of narrative

KEY IDEAS to plunder

1. score an existing narrative – documentary? news story?
2. music cuts right on the final word of narrative