This is 99% invisible.

I'm Roman Mars.

Arriss

Arishiges Hurway has a podcast called Song Exploder.

The concept is simple, but brilliant.

I ask musicians to take apart one of their songs

and go through it piece by piece and let listeners hear what's

hear what's going on inside some of the tracks

and reveal the secrets of what went into making the song,

whether it's some of the sounds inside of it

or just the memories of what they were going through

when they were creating the song.

Smeared black. I don't think Ritchie would mind me saying but it's kind of a design show

about music a 99% invisible for songs.

On the very first episode,

on the very first episode of Song Exploder, Hershey interviewed Jimmy Tamborello

of the band The Postal Service and invited him to take a deep dive into each

individual element of the song, The District sleeps alone tonight.

It's the song that's playing behind me now. If you don't already own the lone Postal Service album,

you've made some poor choices in life.

I'm serious.

Anyway, this is Jimmy Tamborello isolating the backing vocal track

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