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Week 768: “Heirlooms” by Pale White Moon
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Here’s a very unimportant thing I learned today: tomatoes are not the only fruits or vegetables that come in an heirloom variety.
To be honest, I didn’t really know what “heirloom” meant in this context. At the risk of revealing my total lack of gardening knowledge, I think I might have assumed that heirloom tomatoes were descended from the vegetable gardens at Buckingham Palace or something. But no; it just means that the seeds have been saved and passed down for decades, with no cross-breeding or artificial stuff. People who know things claim they have a better taste than supermarket tomatoes.
Heirloom tomatoes have been hogging the heirloom spotlight it seems, and many other fruits and vegetables come in heirloom format. They’re prized for their higher nutritional value and more robust flavour than the mass-produced food of modern agri-business.
What makes this a beautiful song:
1. If pop music is supermarket fruits and vegetables, Pale White Moon is an heirloom variety of band. A loose collective of multi-instrumentalists, their use of classical instruments in a folk-pop context makes their music feel…artisanal?
2. The swinging ¾ time makes it feel easy and relaxed.
3. The plucked strings feel like the careful sowing of seeds.
Recommended listening activity:
Shopping at a farmer’s market.
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