New Marnie Stern Video - "Transformer"

When posting Marnie Stern's "Transformer," I said something about how the way she approaches songwriting feels like she's stumbling upon something for the first time, blowing her own mind over and over. That "stumble"'s not meant as a knock -- I meant it as a kind of ongoing discovery/rediscovery. See, for instance, "Shea Stadium" (poor Mets), "Ruler," etc. Or, as she shouts in "Transformer," "I turn this moment into something new ... The ancient echoes crawling out from my insides." You get a ...

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