Track: Geese – Cowboy Nudes

Label: Partisan

What They Said: “The song is about life getting better, and more fun, after the end of the world.  When we were doing overdubs I wanted to add something Eastern-sounding on the second verse, so I had our drummer Max bring over this busted up sitar we’d had lying around since high school. I went to buy some new strings at a world music store, and the guy told me one pack was $80. I thought he was kidding so I bought two. He was not; sitar strings aren’t cheap. I didn’t even end up fully restringing it, I just played the one not-broken string. So you better appreciate that goddamn sitar on the second verse.  I’m also proud of the line about falling in love with a tumbleweed”

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