Steven Hale
1 min readJan 25, 2021

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Just listened to it. What a wonderful build (and song and performance). It's familiar and comfortable like a favorite sweater. I had never heard of the group. Apparently everyone loves The Beta Band (2 million listens to this song on YouTube) except The Beta Band.

You may already know these, but here are five songs with interesting builds (I started with a single work, and the list just built on itself):

Mogwai, "Burn Girl Prom Queen" (another Scottish band, with horns!) https://youtu.be/bW1K8CMoDAg

Mew, "Comforting Sounds" (the Danish band uses a trumpet here) https://youtu.be/4PvSbj22ZQY

World's End Girlfriend, "We Are the Massacre" (the video from this Japanese multi-instrumentalist patches together gory scenes from cheesy B-movies as a counterpoint to the languid music) https://youtu.be/pEHNhYg8AsM

World's End Girlfriend and Mono, "Trailer 3" "from Palmless Prayer / Mass Murder Refrain": a 12-minute build with a 5-minute fadeout. https://youtu.be/hQQ6mgLqyYI

Caravan, "Backwards": an orchestral build on what I think is the most beautiful melody ever written (by Soft Machine's Mike Ratledge) https://youtu.be/-r2ARJ3vfiQ . It ends abruptly here because another movement follows. Here's the whole suite: https://youtu.be/6zbVfNJKpuM

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Steven Hale
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