shut up and listen

• 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

• vocals only – heavy autotune manipulations
• (reminiscent of imogen heap’s ‘hide and seek’)
• longest lyrics on the album so far
• some electronics (sweeping phaser?) at the end
• leads in to part 2…

KEY IDEAS to plunder

1. solo vocals
2. ringing phasing effect

• begins with solo vocal
• single repeated lyric/melody line
• first repeat adds a harmony
• second repeat adds a second harmony
• organ enters halfway through the above
• distorted, bubbling organ (almost soloing) turns into chords
• bass enters next time around
• vox repeats stop leaving kik/snr/hat (all one the beat) plus offbeat finger click, delayed organ
• vox returns with rim shot
• vox harmonies repeat in a round
• organ and bass get busier, melodic runs
• last line is repeated, overlapped while organ goes crazy ascending (out of key on the way)
• plateaus into a 3 chord loop, tremelo-ing
• vox drop out
• drums stop
• organ fades

KEY IDEAS to plunder

1. crescendo plateaus into loop
2. single line repeated but with gaps and last paraphrase repeats

• single lyric/melody line repeated – with slight variations in text
• 10 x 9 bar measures – the first section has no vox.
• the 11th and final measure is only 7 bars
• vox flutters from left to right rapidly
• big reverb on the vox
• big crescendo of ‘noise’ begins at the 5th section and ends at the 11th (outro)
• 1st: long organ chords and kik/snr intro
• 2nd: vox
• 3rd: counter melody + ‘drain’ percussive hit with reverb
• 4th: vox harmonies
• 5th: noise begins to creep in
• 6th:
• 7th: drums drop out – heavy bass
• 8th: kik back in
• 9th: opening hi hat in – gets ducked by kik
• 10th: closed hi hat ticking in – combines with ducked open hat
• 11th(outro): drums except kik drop out, noises dies away, vox loses verb

KEY IDEAS to plunder

1. overall structure with noise crescendo
2. single melody/lyric line repeated