The Ghost Of A Saber Tooth Tiger Song Reviewed: :Alyson Camus Puts On Her Freudian Slip:

I have already written about “Schroedinger’s Cat’, a song by Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger, the moniker of the Sean Lennon-Charlotte Kemp Muhl’s duet, and may be that’s the reason why Iman sent me another one from the duo, entitled ‘Rainbows in Gasoline’,… or may be it is just because he had became a little obsessed with the song, as I saw the line ‘wearing Freudian slips like evening gowns/Taking guilt trips from town to town’ at the top of the page for a little while…

That’s true that the line is great although I am not sure what it means, it sounds very intellectual with a Freud’s reference and two nice plays on words, but should we be looking for more into it?

The song is quiet (it comes from ‘Acoustic Sessions’) and moves like a slow dream, a stoned lullaby that could be illustrating some mysterious and weird children’s book. I don’t know, but they talk about rainbows, chameleon and dinosaurs, weeds and willows, it sounds like a luxuriant and fun place, but they also want to bury their taxidermied dreams in gardens… a little creepy.

Their vocal harmonies over surfing guitars are subtle and melancholic, and the whole thing gives you the feeling you are haunting a smoggy, almost ethereal place, only lightened up by the moon.
And comparing the music to the Beatles’ may appear like a lazy thing to do, but there is no way Sean and Charlotte can escape it with these harmonies over mellow-sweet guitars, it is actually pretty close

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