death song

She quotes the Cheyenne chief Black Kettle, who survived Sand Creek but still sang a death song: “Nothing lives long, Only the earth and the mountains.”

Then in succession it gives the dulcet imitation of an Indian death song, a menagerie on a stampede, and a country school at recess, and ends with a swan song that makes your hair rise.

Cale said that people walked out and the owner threatened to fire the band if it played the morbid “Black Angel’s Death Song” one more time.

You have to remember, this was 2015, people were singing the death song of the web.

Animal Collective tried a clockwork beat for “There She Goes Again,” and spatters of trap-style sampled percussion did little for “The Black Angel’s Death Song.”