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• ac gtrs – two parts, hard panned, doubling and then deviating
• bass, minimal drums (kik, floor tom, toms)
• elc keys (rhodes) – reminds me of dan lanois’ sling blade soundtrack
• synth – ends on synth shimmer

KEY IDEAS to plunder

1. ac gtrs – two parts, hard panned, doubling and then deviating
2. elc keys (rhodes) – reminds me of dan lanois’ sling blade soundtrack

• ac gtr picking, bass, vox, verbed bvs (no drums)
• chorus: drums, piano
• middle: vox with harmonies or doubles
• end: holding pattern

KEY IDEAS to plunder

1. no drums in the verses, full drums in the choruses
2. end with a holding pattern

• verses: throbbing piano line, like a bass line
• mobile phone beep goes off every revolution of the chord progression
• noisy, chaos ending
• goes straight into next track

KEY IDEAS to plunder

1. throbbing piano line, like a bass line
2. mobile phone beep goes off every revolution of the chord progression
   include an every day sound like mobile phone

• ac gtr picking (doubled), pause
• bass, drums and vox enter
• last word of chorus vox verbed: ‘feel like something dying…’
• lead gtr bending notes

KEY IDEAS to plunder

1. last word of chorus vox verbed: ‘feel like something dying…’
2. lead gtr bending notes

• orchestral, double bass, ac gtr
• vox enters, crooning
• fret buzz of bass and/or gtr becomes accentuated
• prosody: ’round the bend’ – pitch dive
• orchestral parts also slide around (legato)
• final chord (synth or sample?) goes wobbly (tremelo) holds, then sinks, then halts
• goes straight into next track

KEY IDEAS to plunder

1. accentuate fret buzz
2. prosody: ‘around’ – pitch sliding up and down