shut up and listen

• baritone vocals
• the intros to ‘Only if You Run’ and ‘On the Esplanade’ – apparently “imprecise and basically extraneous” — www.prefixmag.com/reviews/julian-plenti/julian-plenti-isskyscraper
• verse chorus structures but retain interest — somehow …
• solo album that still rocks like a band (in places)

• 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