In their old apartment, Olive Martinez and Cody Von Lehmden of Little Fuss lived in adjacent bedrooms. The two musicians could hear every song the other was writing – every cringe-worthy lyric, every half-baked melody. But sometimes it led to magic
This is an exclusive song premiere, part of WBUR's effort to highlight New England musicians.In their old apartment, Olive Martinez and Cody Von Lehmden lived in adjacent bedrooms that shared a very thin wall. The two musicians could hear every song the other was writing – every cringe-worthy lyric, every half-baked melody. But sometimes it led to magic.
And so it was that one day Von Lehmden was playing around with a sample from an obscure rap album from the ‘90s by a Florida duo called Rufftown Mob. The sample came from the song “Broke City,” which, like all the tracks on Von Lehmden’s vinyl copy, was too scratched to play all the way through. “I never knew what it sounded like except for this one portion, which was the drum loop of that song,” Von Lehmden says. “And I just thought it was such a cool beat.
By the end of the day Martinez and Von Lehmden had written “I Want a Secret,” which appears on the pair’s first full-length album as Little Fuss. In its final form, “I Want a Secret” is a devious earworm built around a fizzy bass line only distantly reminiscent of the ambling boom-bap beat of “Broke City.” Instead, Von Lehmden programmed a more up-tempo loop that is somehow both ominous and playful.
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