Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains), by Arcade Fire.
We’ve established that my family are big Arcade Fire fans, yes? Yes. This song is one Regine sings, mostly, which makes it even more of a favorite, especially when we’ve seen them live.
“Dead shopping malls” is such a specific and visceral image for anyone my age, but “mountains beyond mountains” always takes me back to the dawn of our neighborhood shopping mall, and the fake (?) Spanish-adjacent tile-adjacent roof of the Macy’s towering over our old grocery store and library, and their parking lots which were previously the center of the errand universe. That mall lives, of course, because Miami, but others from just a few years earlier died in its wake, long before Amazon and everything else that would come.
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I think this qualifies as some sort of emo acoustic cover, so I put on the hat.
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