The inspired sarcasm of Abe Feigenbaum’s “Try to Speak the Language” is especially choice given the tone of the music and it’s somewhere between 8-bit video game music and slackery indie pop. Even the guitar “solo” sneers at the compromises and imposed rhetoric, slang and jargon we’re expected to adhere to in order to gain access to society’s rewards whether in business, at jobs, in legal situations, in relationships instead of relating to each other as the idiosyncratic humans we all are. It’s not a critique of political correctness in the tired way that is often used to give a pass to abusive thinking and behavior, rather the conformity that makes everything seem uniform and takes the life out of life. The perspective in the song is Kafka-esque by way of Pavement and thus the humor while incisive is ultimately playful. Listen to the single on Soundcloud and follow Abe Feigenbaum on Spotify.
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