"Hot Rod" b/w "The Killing Moon"

One original for you cats, and a cover...

"Hot Rod" is the "original"-- a character study admittedly heavily influenced by the dearly departed Phil Lynott (he of the great Thin Lizzy).  It came together last year and immediately earned itself a soft spot in my heart.  This on account of the excuse to bust out the dumb rock thump, the guitarmonies and the wah-wah, but mostly on account of the subject matter.  Gives me a warm late '90s Baltimore feeling all through my sullen bones, it does.  "Hope you dig it, Jack!"

"The Killing Moon" is cover of Echo & the Bunnymen's dark classic from their '84 masterwork, "Ocean Rain", gussied up with a little REM-style Rickenbacker, tinkling piano and some swoops of pedal steel.  I'd mentioned last time how nice the drums sounded in that torn-up, post-tenant/ pre-renovation room at Stately Roadkill Manor?  Check 'em out on this one!

jk

"Hot Rod":                          https://app.box.com/s/su6ax7nd2h3u91vrcvmc


"The Killing Moon":            https://app.box.com/s/guteahq16x5vljw9z7ph