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OKAY KAYA SPINAL TAP

Okay Kaya's intriguing lyricism and explorative yet melodically satisfying sound has been the source of great pleasure for some of us here at TMR. New single 'Spinal Tap' arrives alongside the welcome news of a forthcoming new album, SAP, arriving on the 4th of November via Secretly Canadian. Mimicking the often erratic nature of thought, overlapping vocals open the piece before a simple guitar hook and tasteful drum machine beat enter. She explains: “I wrote ‘Spinal Tap’ because you may have believed your brain as an impermeable slate and your dreams as strictly food for Freudian thought but according to a science.org article from 2019 on CSF fluid, “large oscillations of fluid inflow to the brain appeared during sleep and were tightly coupled to functional magnetic resonance imaging signals and entrained to electroencephalogram slow waves. Slow oscillatory neuronal activity thus leads to oscillations in blood volume, drawing cerebrospinal fluid into and out of the brain."” Listen to the blissed out track here now. -Holly Mullineaux 

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