It Took Seconds

Three minutes and thirty-nine seconds: This was a big Summer tune for me this year, a year too late and despite its being quite so stuffed w/tricks I ought to have got bored with by now. Surf guitar runs, cocked-gun sounds, ringing phones, cash registers, horses neighing - no, actually, there should be more neighs in pop! I’m tempted to argue the neighs make the song, to be honest, situate it as an aburdist porno Western thing. But that would be wrong, it’s really the way all these different sounds can’t get a grip on the song. They’re trying to pull it off course, turn it into a novelty, but Major Lazer have a bloody-minded dumb-on-purpose commitment to the beat and to repetition which ultimately keeps the track together. “Hold The Line” is a very good name for it.

What would your 3’39” track be?