Bad Flamingo strips its sound back even further back than it has for a whole on “Keep Off of You.” The spare acoustic guitar, perhaps banjo, with some touch of fuzzy electric guitar and a hint of synth accented by the barest percussion has rarely sounded quite this minimal. And the vocals are not a whisper but certainly like the voice in your head as you’re writing something in a journal when you’re feeling foolish for letting yourself be duped again by someone for whom you have given into your weakness to indulge some time that ended up being a hurtful waste of your minutes and hours. The lyrics are like a set of honky tonk mantras against giving in to your impulses and instincts to the kind of animal appeal and attraction to someone that’s bad for you and in just over three minutes of these reminders you hope that our narrator is finally able to get that fool out of her system. Listen to “Keep Off of You” on Spotify and follow the great country/folk/weirdness of Bad Flamingo at the links provided.
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