Summing The Wretch

Album: Painting With (2016)
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  • David "Avey Tare" Portner and Noah "Panda Bear" Lennox' call and response vocals here blur into almost one voice. On headphones, they echo from one ear to the other. Panda Bear told Consequence of Sound regarding the song's vocals: "I gather at first glance it comes across as sort of uh... confused. But it seems like the more we listen to it, it's like one of those Magic Eye things where you see it at first, but it's just a blurry mess, and then once you see it in the right way, it comes into shape. I hope that's what you see in the song."

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