Vetiver

You May Be Blue (Neighbors Remix) (Track Review)

A daylight dedication to organic folk doesn't preclude a little bit of moonlight dabbling in warped electronics, it seems. It's been almost two years since celebrated strummers Vetiver released their last album, To Find Me Gone, and main man Andy Cabic has been busying himself with the founding of the Gnomonsong label in the interim. Bringing his two chief time occupiers together for the first time will be a new Vetiver 12" single featuring two remixes of songs released back in those more (less?) innocent days of 2006. The original version of "You May Be Blue" sounded sort of auburn, actually. It's subtly snaking guitar lines and soft stomp complicated, but didn't fundamentally alter, Cabic's sunset whisper. That vocal is teleported to a not too distant future in its remix by "Neighbors," the assumed name of Find Me Gone producer Thom Monahan and Cabic himself.

 

The melted synths and limping electronic beats of this new version strip the song of its previous back porch confidence. But the silver lining seems programmed in. Gary Numan key tones and a low end rumble swarm in to lend some feeling back to Cabic's numbness. Whether it ascends naturally over the horizon or blinks on at the flip of a switch, the singer remains assured that he'll find a light at "the end." This edit is culled from an epic 10 minute version, so as we fade out he's still waiting patiently. 

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