'What We Know' by Seattle's Pill Wonder, is entirely wet, set in a humid rainforest - toucan squawks, frog ribbitzzz, riding on the back of an elephant that's blowing water skywards and saturating yr backpack and camera. The beat is pretty dumb and elephantine, plodding through mud towards the water - accompanying soft vocals and xylophones are innocently weird - like a children's TV show on acid, maybe Dora the Explorer? Halfway through you've gone in too deep though and are under the water - vocals and jungle sounds warped and aquafied, transmitted through luminous jelly bubbles. Soon there's tropical fish and electric eels and fluorescent coral around, but chill out, float to the surface and lie on yr back, listen to the rainforest through ears half outside, half submerged in the multicoloured water swelling around yr head.
'Wasted by the Screen' trades jungle for bedroom, or maybe a lounge/kitchen with stained carpets and unwashed dishes, friends over messing around making noise on toy drum and pots, wailing and rocking out on the recorder you used to learn in standard 2. It's not loop-driven like 'What We Know', favouring loosely played guitar, loose drumming, loose singing - there's definite potential to fall apart at any moment but not before someone's shouted a few things into a delayed mic cos it sounds fucking rad.
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write more! really good!
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