Search The Line of Best Fit
Search The Line of Best Fit

Listen: Wilsen - "Emperor (Death Vessel Remix)"

05 March 2015, 10:30 | Written by Jon Putnam

The road to one’s demise is often likely viewed in retrospect as a slow, somber, stately march to eternity. However, the details in real time are tense and energetic – think, all of the biological reactions coursing through the body shutting it down, loved ones rushing to the bedside, grief-stricken anger and inconsolable sorrow flowing forth.

Coming on the heels of last year’s wonderful Magnolia EP, Best Fit favorites Wilsen will be offering a remix of that EP next month and we are proud and pleased to exclusively feature a peek. Wilsen’s original “Emperor” recounted the death of its namesake in stark austerity, frontwoman Tamsin Wilson employing a dexterous use of space and silence to create a stoic, quietly deafening scene.

As a sharp counterpoint, Death Vessel (nom de plume of Rhode Island alt-folkie Joel Thibodeau) packs the track with frantic percussion and otherworldly vocal swirls. Whereas the original seemed at a monochrome, ten-thousand foot view of the scene, one can practically see the bright red blood spatters at their feet as the sharp snares and hi-hats underpin Wilson’s graphic scene, “now he’s coughing crimson kneeling on the floor”.

MagnoliaRemix, featuring remixes of the other tracks by Wye Oak, White Hinterland, and Sun Glitters, will be available 14 April. Wilsen will play SXSW in Austin, TX 18-20 March before supporting alt-soulman Matthew E White on his US tour.

Share article
Email

Get the Best Fit take on the week in music direct to your inbox every Friday

Read next