Archive for November, 2011
- concept album
- heavy, industrial sounds combined with melodic material
- use of non-musical samples
- process: generating raw material (eg. 20 minutes improvised gtr) then cutting out interesting bits to sample and loop
- instrumental to close the album
- rain sfx
- acoustic gtr picking
- mournful verbed elect. gtr solo, lynchian
- shakers, then conga and bass join
KEY IDEAS to plunder
- instrumental bookend to album
- all in 3 piece
- sax drops out for verse vox
- vox ‘sheila’ doubled with sax
- sax doubled and hard panned
- lyric
KEY IDEAS to plunder
- vox ‘sheila’ doubled with sax
- lyric
- 3 piece all in from start – slow, plodding track (in contrast to prev. fast track)
- big verb on sax, pushing it back into the distance
- radio effect (EQ) on vox
- harmonies; high is distant (with delay/echo) low is close
- chorus breakdown; beat breaks down, sax gets very low, ends with pause
- organ solo (drums use cowbell instead of hats)
- strange ending … just peters out
KEY IDEAS to plunder
- vox harmonies; high is distant (with delay/echo) low is close
- strange ending … just peters out
- fastest track on the album
- all in from the start except vox
- sax makes room for vox in verse
- chorus; hi hat only, vox harmonies. hats stop for delivery of title vox
- sax solo, distant sax backing
- ending; vox only, slows down
KEY IDEAS to plunder
- chorus; title repeated. hi hat only, vox harmonies. hats stop for delivery of title vox
- ending; vox only, slows down
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