GOTH » slicingupeyeballs » Listen: Paul Westerberg gets weird again with ‘Oompa’ — latest in weekly new song series
Posted date: 2017-08-05 21:14:02
It’s Saturday, which means time for another Paul Westerberg jam via his anonymous Soundcloud account. And, after a few weeks of increasingly conventional songs, the former Replacement veers back into left field with the oddball, and seemingly nonsensical, “Oompa.”
The 3 1/2-minute song, which also appears on Westerberg’s increasingly fleshed-out Dry Wood Garage site, follows last Saturday’s two-song surprise, when he posted the rocker “Dead Sick Of” and a cover of Hank Williams’ “Someday You’ll Call My Name.”
The week before that, Westerberg released the twangy “Feelin’ Good,” which was was preceded the previous weekend by “Got It Made,” which features synths and simple drum-machine beat, and, the week before that, “Hawk Ripping at Your Throat,” a raw, somewhat atonal guitar track.
The new Westerberg solo material comes amid the announcement of an archival live album from The Replacements that was recorded in 1986 and which will be released this October.
Check out the latest new song below.
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