Shortstraw, "Eventually"
South African indie music doesn't get a lot of attention outside of SA, which is a shame, because there are a lot of good young bands that could use some more attention (like Shortstraw, December Streets, and Desmond & the Tutus), and the slight afrobeat influence makes their songs sound more in tune with current pop trends than most British indie acts are. (Eventually, I'll get around to writing my thesis about what I call "Brexit Indie," the backwards-looking bands who are slavishly imitating Oasis, Arctic Monkeys, and The Libertines).
"Eventually," the final single from Shortstraw's most recent album, is more musically conservative than some of their songs, but in some ways, it represents indie music at its best, combining a philosophical chorus--"You know, you know it's only a matter of time/You know, you know eventually we all die"--with a countermelody rooted in the everyday, "She's gone, gone, gone to bed."
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