shut up and listen

• 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

• cover of Feist song
• just the chorus (or single section) of the original, repeated
• piano + vox + subtle percussion (woodblock?) or is it the piano pedals?
• first section ends with delay on piano and vocal
• deep, oscillating bass and kik/rim shot enters in second repeat, no piano
• return to piano + vox, no bass or beats
• piano drops outs, bass and beat returns
• beat and bass drops outs
• delayed piano and vox lead into long pause
• all inst in for final section, bass + vox solo, piano returns, beats return to solo fade out…

KEY IDEAS to plunder

1. deep, oscillating bass
2. long pause with delays fading out

• continuation lyrically, of previous track
• beats added – incl. woody tuned offbeat
• acoustic guitar (with interesting distortion)
• takes last line of part 1 and makes it a harmonised chorus
• verse sung over/under chorus
• beats drop out for mid section, then return
• second mid section (drum solo?) – guitar and vox drop out
• all returns for final section

KEY IDEAS to plunder

1. distorted acoustic guitar – sound like mic distortion?
2. off beat woody tuned percussion