One-Shot (25/07/09)

What's your favourite album track segway? I don't know about you but the rambunctious "Merchandise" giving way to "Blueprint" on Fugazi's 1990 release Repeater + 3 Songs would certainly be up there for me. It'd be easy for a band to miscalculate following such a noisy little track with something slower, more grandiose. It could have been too jarring sonically, a reminder that the "loud-quiet" dynamic popularized around the time is best deployed within a single song. It could have looked like a calculated shot at profundity. Or they could just have liked that arrangement. Whatever it was, it works.