Bodywash's Laughing At Noise is shaping up to be a real treat. The Canadian dream-pop duo impressed us with "Come And Go" and "Lapsang," the latter of which made our list of the 5 best songs of the week. Today's "La Renommée" is a mesmeric rocker inspired by Sonic Youth.
"I'd been reading Kim Gordon's autobiography and listening to a lot of EVOL-era Sonic Youth at the time and wanted to write a song that had the same hushed sense of urgency," Chris Steward explains. "Had no idea the bossa nova-inspired first verse drums would pan out as well as they did."
Long Decter adds, "The lyrics are half about a fictional bartender, half about a real Montreal statue called La Renommée, a winged woman in Jeanne Mance Parc (who I was thinking about thanks to Kasia Van Schaik's book Women Among Monuments.) The idea is that those two figures are maybe the same—standing guard over the city from their fixed perch."
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Laughing At Noise is out 11/20 on Light Organ.