Song of the Day: The Chap, “Ethnic Instrument”
Posted Fri Aug 15, 2008 7:36am PDT by in Rolling Stone Song Of The Day
Brit electro-rockers chatter about world music over a percolating bassline, only to be pushed aside by a crushing riff out of Ram Jam’s “Black Betty”--and then a deep voice out of Yello’s “Oh Yeah,” repeatedly reciting the phrase “bamboo shoot.”
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