You probably know Brett Netson from his work with Built To Spill and Caustic Resin. Now he’s back with the excellent Scavenger Cult EP, credited to Brett Netson & Snakes. Netson will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week.
Netson: I’ve been doing a community radio show for the last four years and will go on forever about how great this album is to me and how it made my first acid trip in junior high a spellbinding experience, but let me just speak specifically about one song in particular: “Spiral Architect”! This is an over-the-top masterpiece of maybe obvious lowbrow pretensions. But if you’re putting on a Black Sabbath record, then you are probably ready to tell the high minded of the world to go fuck themselves! And from age 14 until now, this song has provided majestic fanfare for me and all feral, weirdo losers or for any damn one in their time of honest wonderment. It’s the blues for weirdos, and it’s one of those songs that feels like it was made especially for me! It says, “Fuck everyone who ever messed with your head. You can do great works! Just like the forces on nature, you are mighty.” It’s like a sports-program theme song for none of the sports or radical activities you will ever see on TV. When my wife and I were first dating, I insisted she sit with me in the car late one night in a wicked snowstorm and listen to the entire song. We sat there watching the traffic lights change with not a soul around. The song ended, and I knew she was a keeper. If you’re ever in Boise, Idaho, just come out to the Snake River Plane and haul ass through the middle of nowhere with this on the stereo. It just doesn’t get any better than that.
Video after the jump.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68nFOzGS40g
