Perth electro pop artist Carl Fox follows his 2010 Chunky Rainbows LP with this very odd and distinctive track – the musically thin but lyrically arresting Pencil Warrior: “I was walking home from the shops. Some fucking guy wanted to shoot me in the face with a gun. Blood from on his face flicked onto my skin.” Carl sings his surreal lyrics in a pinched, boyish voice while his beat patterns and synth melody tick and float like pearls in bubble tea.
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