• very different ac gtr sound – low quality, boxy
  • ac gtr doubled
  • no drums or other instruments
  • vox, falsetto doubled, hard panned – very clear in contrast to gtrs
  • first line descends into full voice
  • chorus; some gtr melody
  • structure: chord holds between vox lines in the verse, builds expectation
    ‘This my excavation and to – [hold] day is Kumran’
    ‘I keep throwing it down two [hold] hundred at a time’
  • structure: verse 1, chorus, verse 2, chorus, verse 3
    stops just as expected 3rd chorus should come
  • long after track ambience – gtr knocking, footsteps, beep

KEY IDEAS to plunder

  1. structure: chord holds between vox lines in the verse, builds expectation
    ‘This my excavation and to – [hold] day is Kumran’
    ‘I keep throwing it down two [hold] hundred at a time’
  2. structure: verse 1, chorus, verse 2, chorus, verse 3
    stops just as expected 3rd chorus should come