Its easy to see we got in too far and not much is really sacred.
Every other week I realize that Stephen Malkmus is one of the most brilliant, mad and creative people I’ve ever had the pleasure of being exposed to. He merges gripping melancholy, indecipherable lyrics, downright fun instrumentation (steel drums! Accordions!), good looks, effortlessly brilliant songwriting, epic psych guitar journeys and uplifting slackerism into an irresistable body of work so amazing I’ve now spent 40 minutes trying to choose a single song to post. Impossible to pick one that could stand for and represent all the others.
Now it’s all so straight and narrow and the skeptics rule the nation
So, on a whim, here’s Witch Mountain Bridge. It has odd medieval undertones that warp into one of those previously mentioned epic guitar affairs. It has an organ that does surprisingly chirpy, cheerful things inbetween all the darkness. I have no idea what the song is about, but the lyrics are wonderful. I adore the way the song nearly comes to a halt in the middle, gets fleshed out with an unexpected warbly synth and then gradually opens up into an ever more effusive guitar solo towards the end.
