3:44
Dense psychedelic soul-funk groove with wah-soaked guitar flickers, stabbing brass hits, conga-driven polyrhythms and tape-spliced city-noise snippets spiraling in and out of the mix, mood is claustrophobic but electric, Black male singer with raspy urgent tenor delivers elastic call-and-response lines that swell into gospel-tinged group shouts, thick round bass locks into a 95 bpm pocket while organs swirl like vertigo, arrangement shifts abruptly to sample-like montage sections echoing newsbreaks and street chants, Black male singer, psychedelic soul, funk rock, urban sound collage, horn stabs, wah guitar, congas, 95bpm
3:49
Fierce modal jazz-rock at 120 bpm with stabbing Rhodes chords, angular sax riffs, fuzz-bass groove and polyrhythmic snare accents, atmosphere paranoid and urgent, White female singer with smoky mezzo belts edgy phrases then slips into syncopated half-spoken lines, sudden cut-ups of radio announcer samples punctuate transitions, guitars slash with dissonant wah swells, final vamp resolves into haunting choral “oohs”, White female singer, jazz rock, psychedelic soul, saxophone stabs, Rhodes piano, fuzz bass, 120bpm
4:02
1972 apocalyptic folk-rock ballad built on finger-picked acoustic guitars, mournful harmonica swells and low floor-tom heartbeat at 80 bpm, White male baritone singer with weathered gravel tone delivers stark poetry rising to plaintive sustained notes, subtle string quartet enters for crescendos, atmosphere somber yet defiant, chorus blooms into chanted harmonies then falls back to lonely six-string pulse, White male singer, folk rock, acoustic guitar, harmonica, string quartet, 80bpm
3:02
1975 proto-punk blast at 150 bpm, chugging power-chord guitars, galloping bass, relentless floor-tom eighths, snarling White male tenor vocal spitting short staccato phrases then stretching into ragged melodic hooks, background gang shouts echo key lines, feedback swells and tape dropouts mimic overload, bridge shifts to half-time stomp before final sprint, White male singer, proto punk, power chords, gang vocals, 150bpm, tape glitches