Freebird II, by Parquet Courts.
This song has been on the list for a long time, one of my favorite Parquet Courts songs to sing along with in the car. A rare daytime recording today, with natural light, the ten-year-old mashing his mouse playing Roblox on the couch next to me, and perhaps the dog snoring.
Parquet Courts is of course one of countless bands I only know about because of an All Songs Considered podcast or something similar, but I always remember I spotted one of my “little” (millennial) cousins listening to them on Spotify in the scrobbling days, so I felt like it was validated as cool.
I don’t know too much else about the band, other than I like all their music.
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Drum loop, MIDI organ, guitar-as-bass dropped an octave, rhythm guitar, vocals with sparse additional guitar, and two backup vocals, recorded in that order.
I love how I can spend 20 minutes looking for the right drum loop in garageband, but the right answer is always, like, “BAR BAND FOUR ON THE FLOOR” or something like that, which makes sense when you realize I am not brave enough to keep up with a drum loop on anything more complicated than that.