[mp3] NEPTUNE

Neptune - "Swang!"

Something to wake you (i.e. me) up. Neptune come from Boston and make all their own instruments out of junk (scrap metal, I think, but maybe other things as well). The instruments look exactly how the band sounds, to the point where I always hear the final clatter of this song as the singer himself falling into little pieces on the ground.

They've put out two full albums in the past few years that I actually haven't heard yet; this is from a 1996 seven-inch that provided a much-needed infusion of exclamation points into my early radio days. At the time I had fixated on indie-pop strongly enough that I don't think I'd heard Jon Spencer Blues Explosion at all, so I didn't realize how derivative this was (or how much it improved on what it imitated)!