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Bad Wiring, 2019
Written by Jeffrey Lewis
Listen for the silent E!
This guy is a recent discovery for me and I love him. His bleak, cracking, whiny voice is a great match for the multisyllabic, erudite waterfall of lyrics that flow from his pen. Often he's introspective, pondering our place in the geopolitical arena or the universe. This song asks why, if we have so much great technology, we can't use a machine to tamp down our feelings. Lewis is one of the very few songwriters who will send you to Google: "We got blueprints for rockets that defeat gravitation / With combustion hydraulics and discrete calculation / Of where the Kármán line snaps and the sound wave convulses." The Kármán line is the boundary pointe between atmosphere and space. Bonus points for "discrete."
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