Moonface - Loose Heart = Loose Plan
New from Spencer Krug (on Jagjaguwar), reminds me of something from 1982 or so, heard at Danceteria at 3am. Really dense, atmospheric and moody. From his release notes:
I found the organ, bought it up, plugged it into big whirling speakers and powerful amplifiers, and got down to making some lush drones. But the lush drones did not come. You see, I have a little dude who lives inside me that loves pop music, and he sometimes finds his way into my hands. When this happens, my fingers move toward the catchiest melodies they can, like bees to flowers with the most pollen. It can’t be helped. The little pop-dude inside me turns a few notes into a melody and I say, “Okay, that’s nice little dude, a little poppy maybe, but nice, maybe we can use that once, somewhere in the song.” And he says, “But wouldn’t you rather hear it over and over again? Maybe throw it in a few times now, and then a few times again towards the end of the song? And maybe that ‘drone’ in your left hand would sound better if you moved it up and down the keyboard a little bit.” But then I say, “Come on little dude, I’m no fool, that’s just a chord progression you’re trying to get out of me. Next thing you know we’ll be repeating it over and over again, the melody will be a hook, and I’ll have made another random half-pop song.” And then the little dude says, “WTF, man.” And then I say, “Okay little dude, okay, party on.”
