Soul Coughing: Unmarked Helicopters
June 21st, 2007
From the album Songs in the Key of X (1996)
Recorded during the tumultuous sessions of the band's second album, Irresistible Bliss, Unmarked Helicopters is prototypical Soul Coughing and an achievement in "slacker jazz." That intra-band strife of the time seems to help this song, better than any other, capture the zeitgeist of The X-Files, the feeling of alienation and suspicion that the show projected.
The intro borrows from of the ...
