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In April we heard "Geneva," the debut single from Morgan Noise, and we learned that Morgan Noise is the band led by Fat Dog's Morgan Wallace. Now, according to the sacred customs of the record business, she's followed up that song by sharing another one and announcing her debut LP.
Like all of the many albums announced this week, Something Built, Something Remembered will be out in August. Unlike many of those albums, this one will toy around at the jazzy fringes of Windmill-scene indie rock. "Silly Me," with its delicate scatting vocals and patiently sophisticated arrangement, gives you a good sense of how Wallace likes to zig and zag. The guitar on this gets tasty when the tension starts to rise.
A word from Wallace:
Silly me started with an overlapping scale going up and up. I remember trying to sing it in the shower and not being able to pitch it quite right and having to run to the piano. I wanted it to have an almost nursery rhyme feel, especially with the doo doos in the chorus. A nursery rhyme turned heavy.
I wrote it in Devon in the spring a year and a bit ago, and the imagery is about Devon (where I grew up) and the straw and the thatched roofs and running through fields full of grass above your head. ‘Touch my hair I am made of straw through the fields I run from it’ This spinning feeling of running through the field and becoming one with it and not seeing the end from the beginning was actualised with the band and the never-ending-overlapping scale.
It’s staggered between myself and Kavi (bass) singing one phrase, then Georgia (guitar and bvs) singing and playing the next, passing through the band until the drums bring in the groove. And the song ends where it began.
Listen below.
TRACKLIST:
01 "No One Known"
02 "Geneva"
03 "Silly Me"
04 "She Dreamed"
05 "Under The Reeds"
06 "Broken Air"
07 "Eyes"
08 "Hold It This Long"
09 "I Put Everything"
10 "Stretching Too Far"
11 "Too Big"
Something Built, Something Remembered is out 8/28.
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