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If I were you, I'd be out on the town
Whatever passes for my health these days has tipped over onto the sidewalk, but my afternoon which contained far too much communication with doctors on far too little sleep was measurably improved by the discovery of Avalon Emerson's "Don't Be Seen with Me" (2025). I think of Oppenheimer Analysis as so extremely niche in appeal that it almost never crossed my mind that anyone would cover one of their songs, much less drench it in heart-racing, echo-dragged dream-pop like a night drive high on the endless windshield slide of light. I still prefer the colder, dryer original with its relentlessly weird garbage-can drum programming and glitteringly nervy columns of synths against which the vocals sound even more paranoid and plaintive, but just the fact that someone else went for their own version makes me happy. I suppose electronically unsettled meditations on the Manhattan Project and the Cold War have come back around into fashion.
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(I can't help thinking of somebody turning The Trinitite Golem into synthpop now.)
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You're welcome! I love them so much. I believe I have their entire discography, some of it gleaned from music blogs before the last glaciation. I am happy to send you anything you can't find. "Don't Be Seen with Me" is one of my favorites. It was the opener for the original 1982 cassette of New Mexico and I played it on Bertie more times than I could count. Emerson is totally new to me.
(I can't help thinking of somebody turning The Trinitite Golem into synthpop now.)
(It would be an honor!)
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Yay!