fog is andrew broder and i’ve been following him ever since i heard this song, which was given to me on a mix cd in 2002 when i was haunting the borderline-obsessive mixtape website www.artofthemix.com. probably because i heard them at about the same time, i always think of yesterday’s capitol k track and this track like they are brothers or something, like twin brothers separated at birth who meet later, in their twenties, to find that one has become joyful, optimistic, celebratory and the other has become doubtful, thoughtful, melancholy. and yet THEY HAVE THE SAME DNA. anyway as much as i love both brothers, ‘pneumonia’ is the one that gets me in the guts. if i was trying to explain my identity to aliens who can only communicate via indie music, this track would have a prominent position on the mixtape that i would use to illustrate my self. yep.

andrew broder, as you probably know if you are the blog-trawling type, has done many interesting projects since this including a collab with why? (more on him soon) and also some uniformly excellent mashup-style things, like his take on missy elliot’s ‘gossip folk’ which is one of my favourite bastard pop type tracks ever. FOG

Fog - Pneumonia