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“Fitzpleasure,” the album’s most frenetic and even schizophrenic composition, jumps between Gregorian chant to Afropop-tinged dubstep to ethereal electronica yet never feels contrived. Lyrically, it’s nearly indecipherable, obscured by Joe Newman’s nasal falsetto vocals that recall tribal singers from nearly any continent in the Southern Hemisphere.

In an interview, Joe Newman explained that the song is based on Hubert Selby Jr.’s 1964 novel Last Exit to Brooklyn. It was later adapted into a 1989 British/German film directed by Uli Edel.

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Joe Newman on “Fitzpleasure”:

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