Last week Todd the Boss recommended checking out Banner’s “Choose Me”. It’s a nice enough track, but I’ve fallen for “Cadillac On 22s” instead. I know we live under the rule of Pharell’s casio and Blaze’s 45 rpm sound, but the warm springtime melancholy of the opening acoustic guitars sounds so fresh in comparison to the digitally tweaked sounds of yesteryear that this has to be shouted about. The cheap drum machine sounds against the ‘real’ instruments make this sound like an Arab Strap instrumental politely borrowed by young David, and if it wasn’t for the patter of the Dirty South cymbal beats I would swear it was. Who produced this?! I need to know.
The open sky sad singalong of the Outkast style chorus is already a car-tape classic of 2004.