The Set Up is flagged as a companion piece to last year’s Mr. Luck & Ms. Doom, starting off from a tune Willy Vlautin brought in at the end of the sessions, ‘Walking with His Sleeves Down’. Vlautin says, “Amy learned it on piano, and we recorded it live. Her take was stunning, but the song didn’t quite fit with the record. It was lonelier, more rattled, and it missed that rudderless romance that inhabits the world of Mr. Luck & Ms. Doom, so we set it aside”
Stunning doesn’t begin to cover it. If you had a namecheck for Birmingham’s Judas Priest on your Delines lyric bingo card, you can tick it off on this song. Just Amy Boone and piano, bleak but beautiful. The next song that Vlautin brought to the band was ‘The Meter Keeps Ticking’,…