shut up and listen

• gospel style
• lyric: 4 lines repeated 4 times
• harmonies: different phrasings/different lyrics (slightly)
• 1st section: vox and organ, harmonies join later
• 2nd section: organ drops out, deep bass line. all vox harmonies
• very hissy – overdub artefact? hiss becomes musical texture, pops on and off
• 3rd section: vox only
• short electronic melody at end

KEY IDEAS to plunder

1. harmonies with slight differences – reminiscent of queen’s ‘somebody to love’
2. hiss/overdub artefact as deliberate texture

• two word lyric – practically no lead vox
• two note oscillating vox loop “i mind” bed (starts with edit pop)
• overlayed with other 2 note vox loop – changes pitch but not tempo) – other lyric? i hear an ‘s’…
• electronic beat drops in for 2nd and 4th (double time) sections
• low bass (kik?) only one note
• ‘guitar’ chord stab with white noise in 3rd section
• thereafter reverse white noise functions as opening hi hat – ducked by kik?
• fade out – only track on the album that fades out

KEY IDEAS to plunder

1. vox loop layers as harmony and melody
2. white noise as cymbal (swell, reverse ‘open hi hat’) – ducked by kik

• two line lyric, repeated
• piano + vox beginning
• popping edits begin with piano and background noise
• then processed hi vocal joins
• descending bass line joins to end
• very short song (1:36)

KEY IDEAS to plunder

1. begin with ‘live performed’ section, then build track from edited loops of same material
2. use edit pops as beat

• lyric double meaning by being homophones “how forlorn to watch you go / how full on to watch you grow”
• begins with vox, joined by single chord pad
• little insert of popping edited processed high vocal
• low harmony vox joins
• unexpected backing enters. beat with low bass, organ pads and pop edit vox loop
• fast electronic woodblock is a feature of the beat
• pop edit vox loop changes chord and back again (pitch shift without tempo shift)
• ‘chorus’ vox sounds pitch shifted up (live performances feature another vocalist for this part – presumably to recreate this pitch shifted timbre)
•  breakdown section: low bas + vox, then organ pads + vox, then opo edit vox loop solo
• all returns for second half, repeats first main section
• ends with solo vox loop

KEY IDEAS to plunder

1. popping edit loop, changing chord, as backbone of song
2. double meaning homophones

• piano & vox (uneffected)
• single take live performance (ie. piano and vox recorded simultaneously)
• some faint background noise
• very little lyric repetition (compared to previous tracks)
• short (1:56)
• feels like an interlude, a break from the processed electronics, midway through the album

KEY IDEAS to plunder

1. live performance recorded in a sonically interesting place (ie. background sound)
2. falsetto vocals