SOUNDTRACK: LOS BITCHOS-“Trapdoor” (2018).
The first time I played this song I thought it sounded vaguely familiar. I don’t know that I ever would have guessed that it was a cover. But upon reading that it is a King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard song, it absolutely makes sense.
They get the opening guitar sounds perfectly right and the lead guitar even sounds vaguely flute-like.
Of course, since the original is jam packed with words, it’s easy to not realize it’s the same song, but the melody is so great it works perfectly as an instrumental as well.
Los Bitchos keep the psychedelic feel of the song and just slow it down a bit (until the end) to make it even more dreamy.
Incidentally, I found out about Los Bitchos because their song came on right after King Gizzard’s new song on YouTube. Good programming, there!
[READ: July 14, 2020] “My Madeleine”
This issue of the New Yorker has a series of essays called Influences. Since I have read most of these authors and since I like to hear the story behind the story, I figured I’d read these pieces as well.
These later pieces are all about one page long.
Spark starts by saying that Marcel Proust is well-known for his Madeleine fetish. He put the cookie to his lips and is memories flooded back.
Spark’s “Madeleine” is an empty notebook–as soon as she sees one she wants to fill it. (more…)
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