Severin the Wanderer:
"Some of us like to be haunted. The familiarity of ghosts soothes us. I first fell in love with Psapp over “About Fun,” a deceptive bit of silliness – squeaky dog toys and all – like the rabbit of C..."
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Severin the Wanderer:
"Some of us like to be haunted. The familiarity of ghosts soothes us. I first fell in love with Psapp over “About Fun,” a deceptive bit of silliness – squeaky dog toys and all – like the rabbit of Caerbannog: fuzzy, cute and white, but with teeth. At the time, I didn’t see the teeth, but rushed out and bought everything I could find. This was about a year ago, and I’ve been digesting. As of today, Psapp figures in my Top 12. Jena asked me a few months back whom I was liking, and I answered “I think Psapp is the real thing.” No “thinking” about it anymore, not after this song. The melody, figured in synths and natural keyboards, leads Galia Durant’s mocha purr down a much darker road than we’re used to hearing from Psapp: “We've left our homes/ for the dusty road/ though it weighed us down/ to go…. It is cold, it is dark/ in the big black heart/ of the wood of the hill/ at our home.” What does it mean to honk a rubber ducky in that bleak landscape? I call it “whistling past the graveyard” or, sometimes, “courage.” Psapp = heroic absurdity. Buy this stuff."
