Yellow Jacket Avenger - "The Special Fate"
Behind all of the well-manipulated old machines, the austere perfection of synthesized sound, is a tender-hearted creature with a penchant for touching melody. The backing track could be Bjork's and the bridge's vocal David Byrne's, but there's also Peter Gabriel here - an unabashed, if otherworldly, sap. "In summer with my old friends/we swam by the moon/Through the grass we'd creep/on the shore we'd leave our shoes," Yellow Jacket Avenger reminisces over the wheezy, unnatural sounds of his dance music nearly too slow to dance to.
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Posted by Jordan at April 23, 2008 5:25 PMSounds eerily like Daniel Lanois on the verses. I knew, even before I checked, that he was Canadian.
Posted by: Jack Fear at April 24, 2008 9:54 AM(Admittedly, given the title of the post, it wasn't difficult.)
Posted by: Jack Fear at April 24, 2008 10:00 AMi can just tell this is a great summer song--great foil to the sun. his singing reminds me of dylans' on "cross the green mountain", a song for a movie soundtrack early this century.
Posted by: David at April 24, 2008 12:55 PMThis was... like WOW. Beautiful song. Reminds me of my old home.
Posted by: Dmaj7 at April 27, 2008 8:43 AM