Friday, September 14, 2012
Music A Few Bands Stereogum Forgot on Their "Best New Bands of 2012" List
Posted by Lauren Beck on Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 1:01 PM
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About an hour before writing this post, a coworker* Skyped me an MP3 of a song called "Have You Seen My Son" from some guy named Benjamin Booker. Now here we are. Consider that YouTube clip above my Skype to you, and let's make this kid famous. The recorded version comes with a shoddy drum machine clap to heighten its punked-up charge, putting gospel in the presence of a chugging melody. Elsewhere, in a near-perfect lyrical turn, Booker brings the lazily rolling "I Thought I Heard You Screaming” to a close with the line, “Did you love me, or was it the drugs?" That's how you end a song.
*Thanks, Dana.
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