Palace Posy
Running time	4:05
Appears on	Tomorrow's Harvest

Comments

• Joe Clay: "An instant classic and the most playful track on the album, featuring a juddering slo-mo beat, a bouncy, pinging bass line and warm chords with the occasional flourish of classical strings. It sounds a bit like Aphex Twin's 'Cow Cud Is A Twin' or something else from the album, I Care Because You Do. It almost has a standard vocal, albeit one generated by a radio tuned into a station playing the chorus of a totally different song."
• Not sure if anyone else has noted this, but "Palace Posy" is an anagram of "Apocalypse".
• Under the influence of so many apocalyptic cinema comments, the first few times I heard this track I imagined some kind of populist Matrix Reloaded Zion-esque rave. But repeated plays lent a more martial & baroque vibe than that, and now every time Palace Posy comes on I imagine the dance of death from Bergman's Seventh Seal: http://www.google.com/search?q=seventh+seal&client=safari&rls=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=KdnEUcqFMcasigKEsIHIBw&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1026&bih=611#client=safari&rls=en&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=seventh+seal+dance+of+death&oq=seventh+seal+dance+of+death&gs_l=img.3...1895650.1900558.0.1900742.15.15.0.0.0.0.1124.1837.10j1j7-1.12.0...0.0...1c.1.17.img.Z1ZTgxLinj4&bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&bvm=bv.48293060,d.cGE&fp=c2d7593cc136b61e&biw=1026&bih=589

Trivia

• A palace is the official residence of a sovereign, archbishop, bishop, or other exalted person. The word derives from the Latin palatium, from Palatium, the Palatine Hill in Rome where the emperors' residences were built.

• A posy is a brief sentiment, motto, or legend. Alternatively it is a word for a flower or bouquet of flowers. During the Plague, posies of herbs were carried as protection and to ward off the smell of the disease.

• The Posy Palace is a florist shop at Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom.

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