The album is Formula and the song is called ‘Amoeba’ and iTunes calls it Industrial, but iTunes does not really understand genre. I suppose it is industrial in that it’s all hard edges, manly, echoey, pylon-sounding, but whatever.

This isn’t a post about OLD, about whom I know about three facts: two of them went on to form Khanate, who are fucking brilliant because you can feel yourself getting swollen tonsils and nasty rashes and cold sores and bad circulation just listening to them, and how many bands can you say that about? Exactly. Two, they were Earache’s worst-selling band ever or something. Three, my boyfriend really likes them (hence knowledge of fact two, and possibly even fact one, although I maybe did find that one out for myself, I mean I am not totally stupid). Anyway, this is a post about the fourth fact I know about OLD, and this isn’t actually a fact, it’s a point of conjecture or discussion or something. It’s just that, well, this ‘Amoeba’ track reminds me enormously of a 60s Caetano Veloso track called ‘Equanto Seu Lobo Nao Vem’.

And I am wondering if this is just me, or if anyone else has ever noticed this. I noticed it first, a bit drunk after a few weeks’ straight-edge living (recommended) and my boy noticed it too, and said actually, it wasn’t such a weird comparison to draw, but didn’t really explain why, like he wanted me to figure it out for myself or something. This is about as far as I’ve got.

I am also wondering if there’s a word for the feeling of noticing one piece of music reminds you of a completely other piece of music - not that thing of, oh, that’s been nicked off that. There is a word for that, and it’s YEAH, SO WHAT? I think I mean more the enjoyment of incongruous connections. Loving the wrong. That’s what I mean.

Re: the OLD/Caetano Venn diagram, I am still not sure, even though there’s this orchestra-tuning-up bit in the middle, which brings to mind ‘Panis Et Circensis’ by Os Mutantes. What the fuck? Industrial Metal Tropicalia? Could it possibly be?

I should try leaving the house sometimes.