“Black Cat John Brown” is an undeniably killer tune. The lead-off track to the album of the same name—Alamo Race Track’s second—is the kind of song that’s simultaneously weird and wonderful enough to make you stop whatever you’re doing, in order to seek out everything the band has recorded. It’s an ominous little ditty—twangy and soulful enough to elicit genuine bafflement upon the discovery that it’s the product of four skinny, indie dudes from Amsterdam.

Surprise number two: The track is something of an anomaly on the disc to which it lends its name. The rest of the album is a bit more in line with the brand of music one would expect to emanate from the skinny-jeaned Dutch guys in the press photos, the product of years weaned on fuzzy shoegazer and the music XTC affectionately referred to as “pop.” Even more of a surprise is the fact that, despite taking a sharp right turn after its dusty lead off track, the rest of the album folds together remarkably well.

Still, god forbid the band were to perish in some fiery rock ’n’ roll plane crash before being given the chance to properly penetrate the world outside of Scandinavia, “Black Cat John Brown,” which scored the band a massively-popular video on YouTube, and a spot on “Grey’s Anatomy,” that holy grail of indie rock soundtracks, would surely become the band’s legacy. By the time you’ve listened to the track for the sixth time in a row—with that creepy reverb intro and the staggeringly simple four-note riff that never lets up through the duration of the song—it’s clear that there are far worse legacies to have in this world.

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