Archive for December, 2011
- breathy synths, verbed plucky gtr lick
- drums enter
- high wordless vox intro
- low vox verse
- chorus: main lyric line in two halves
‘i always want you when i’m’ – ‘coming down’
- tinkling, ringing phone, flourishes
- midway: 10CC-like sample (fem spoken whispered)
becomes loop and melodic/rhythmic element of remaining track)
KEY IDEAS to plunder
- 10CC-like sample (fem spoken whispered)
becomes loop and melodic/rhythmic element of remaining track)
- chorus: main lyric line in two halves
‘i always want you when i’m’ – ‘coming down’
- starts with loop holding chord
- vox enters, chord sequence begins
- bass enters
- vox alternates between
mod phrasing ‘i understand your body wants it’,
slow phrasing ‘ride baby, ride baby’,
fast phrasing ‘with your louis v bag, tatts on your arms’
- breakdown/merge into ‘after party’: fem bv delayed, fades, bass + drums continue, lead vox
- 2nd half: processed funk gtr lick
- bass and drums drop out
- processed bv
- kik returns
- drums return, dub gestures on drums
- pulsing, breathy beat – surging
KEY IDEAS to plunder
- pulsing, breathy beat – surging
- two versions of the one song (same chords/melody) stitched together
- descending chord pattern for whole song
- elct gtr picking + atmos noise
- pause
- bass, drums, elct gtr, synth + vox (verb, slight EQ)
- chorus: vox doubled + harmonies
- riff thickens toward end of track
KEY IDEAS to plunder
- same chord pattern broken by pauses
- thicken riff over time
- chirpy gtr solo opening
- bright breezy synth chords (quite a contrast to prev. trk)
- vox enters with strange percussion (firework? bursting balloon?)
- vox is emotive but monotonish – modulating around two or three notes)
- gtr solo returns as verbed out back ground
- bass and drums kick in with chorus
- chorus has harmonised vox
- 2nd verse features extra vox – doubles harmonies call + response
- v 3 backing fades out over time
- chorus: all back in again
- whole track fades out
KEY IDEAS to plunder
- monotone vox over rich chords
- strange percussion – balloon bursting/fireworks
- siouxsie and the banshees sample – lead gtr loop + vox
- creates a party/crowd feel
- breakdown before merging into ‘glass table girls’
- transition is a funky repeat + pitch drop of vox
- 2nd half is a solo vox over a bass heavy pattern
all melodic richness is gone
lots of swearing
KEY IDEAS to plunder
- transition is a funky repeat + pitch drop of vox
- stitch 2 songs together to make one
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