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Kristin Hersh: Speedbath
Kristin writes that this song is “all about half steps and rhythmic skips.” For the first couple of listens you clearly detect the parallel rhythms that slide over each other, but not in the manic Muses way – it’s slow, methodical, beautiful music. Math rock has nothing on this song – this is all about unpicking and rebuilding the DNA of western music.
I marvel at how the song hangs together. I half-expected some of it to run on beyond the end of the tape – some of it is unsettling, but it’s great to feel your brain trying to work out the sense within it.
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