Au - "Here's To Forgetting (Parenthetical Girls)"

Messenger bees! Send out the messenger bees! Set them off! Don't hold the trigger, pull you bastard! Send the messenger bees!

[click] [silence] [rush] [buzz] [wind] [rain] [the drums of war continue]

"The Weather War will be fought on all sides like plump children devouring a pizza", so goes the saying. I suppose we all know this will lead to nothing, we'll eat our pizza and one lucky child will be left with a dough ball and a little plastic table, a rather worthless prize, but still that is how it is shaping up."

"In the throes of the Weather War, opinion will be key, approval will rattle in the wind like all ratted and torn flags, and it is imperative that we hold on to opinion, that we steer it through these storms like a sound ship. Our greatest enemy, of course, the messenger bees. At this point, it seems they will be unstoppable. It will be the solving of the messenger bee problem that will be the crux of the Weather War, the lynchpin, the foothold, the grounding wire, the deciding factor. I leave it to a smarter man than myself to solve this problem. One of democracy's greatest, to be sure."

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Parenthetical Girls, one of the most underrated bands in the world, have released an album of covers. Covers of Sparks, Tori Amos, Daniel Johnston, plus a bunch of other bands covering Parenthetical Girls songs, of which "Here's To Forgetting" is one, covered by the magnificent Au. Buy this record, it is wonderful.

And, more Parenthetical Girls to come very soon.