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Plants and Animals - Good Friend

The shaker at the start of this song is the ticking of keyrings hanging from some ignition, rattling steadily, as the great hulk of metal and rubber brings little hulks of bone and muscle and thought somewhere, on a Night Out. They drown their sorrows in nightclub corners, and nod their heads at nothing at all, because the rhythm here is so good, and it tells them to. It's so good that in the next days it'll come back to you, to make that walk home easier and quicker, to make the change from day to night more seamless and tempting. This song changes like that, it starts with someone dark pacing into the night along concrete sidewalks and dirty wooden dancefloors, and ends up with someone leaving a city as the sun rises and the night retreats to its own starry bed. And as songs go, it's pretty great.

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Unrelatedly, this interview with two ex-members of B*witched is brilliant, and well worth a click.