There are real wolves that I recorded after visiting a wolf sanctuary in Upstate New York. I am obsessed with Halloween playlists, and keeping in the vein of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller", Screamin’ Jay Hawkins’s “Feast of the Mau Mau“, and our own "Swamp Thing”, we wanted to explore the spooky thematics in how we produced the song. I used this image of preserving something in this lifetime to be accessed in another as a metaphor for an unobtainable relationship, to re-appear throughout the ages because circumstances won’t allow it this time around. When they preserved the body through mummification for the afterlife, the organs were contained in a canopic jar. “A canopic jar is an ancient artifact from Egypt. Singer Nai Palm is a long-time lover of Halloween inspired music, as she explains in the song’s meaning… ‘Canopic Jar’ is their first new music since the acclaimed release of the album “Mood Valiant” in June. A 12" vinyl release of the single package will be available on October 29th here.
"Canopic Jar" is a haunting, cyclical track exploring the descent into the darker corners of the mind. No one understands this more than the staff at NPR Music: Here are just a handful of some of their favorite Tiny Desk (home) performances of 2021.The twice Grammy-nominated band share a new single "Canopic Jar" including a hypnotizing 32 second introduction titled "Journey To The Crystal Tomb". The range of artists and locations in the nearly 200 Tiny Desk (home) concerts published this year, as well as the sneak peak of life back in the office with Tiny Desk Contest winner Neffy, gives the series as a whole a new life, a new meaning and new outlook on the world of music. From a high school in Virginia to an avant-garde studio in Melbourne to a performance space in Lagos to a room full of family in Madrid, the Tiny Desk has never been more regionally expansive as it was this year. It's hard to think of a place where so many people once gathered to celebrate and dance and sing along to their favorite artists as being lonesome - but in spirit, the Tiny Desk has been all over the world. As we inch towards the end of year two of the pandemic, the literal Tiny Desk - the one that belongs to Bob Boilen himself - remains empty in the NPR HQ.
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