Snake Oil

My new track Snake Oil is available to stream everywhere now! I had a little glow up to celebrate. The video is also fresh up on You Tube. 

Official press release from Mulga PR:

From the Pettaluck’s forthcoming album 'Pan', Snake Oil was the first track to be written. It pulls influences from the Canterbury Scene, psychedelic clarinet work, the claustrophobia of hospitals,and Emma’s experiences of having to tell people you have a chronic illness. She states: “When we hear someone has a problem, we naturally want to help solve it, so the response is generally unsolicited advice about health, diet, or medication, regardless of whether those people have experience or knowledge in that area. Although tiresome its usually well meant. BUT it is also about the more sinister money grabbing industry of ‘wellness’ that was particularly obvious in the face of long covid, where businesses seek to exploit the fears, pain, and anxiety of the sick. The song explains my personal experience of feeling terrible and desperation to be well again, but the title refers to miracle cures and charlatans.”Due to her sickness, she could not play my woodwinds, so she asked several friends to record themselves blasting obnoxious horn type instruments (vuvuzela, didgeridoo and conch shell). The track opens with a big, angry, farty blast of defiant energy, that blast then fractures into an incessant anxious rhythm. The chorus line of “I would swallow anything” is has a duel meaning: between swallowing medication and accepting lies.The video is made from a free trial of the program Canva - for making slick video presentations for adverts, corporate presentations, and funeral montages. Its disturbing sheen creates an amusing juxtaposition when used with her lyrics.