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tUnE-yArDs - Water Fountain
Full of sing-song chants, clanking percussion, and plenty of the gentle mayhem that distinguished tUnE-yArDs' landmark 2011 album W H O K I L L, "Water Fountain" is a double-Dutch soundtrack par excellence. Over a handclap pattern straight out of the "Diwali" riddim, Merrill Garbus summons her inner Tom Tom Club in yelps and whoops, singing through what sounds like a busted transistor radio. The dissonance between the song's jubilant mood and its ominous imagery only makes it that much more impossible to ignore, like a crimson scab on a skinned knee. P.S.
