This is one of my favorite tracks by a Ninja Tune artist. Easy Muffin is off the Bricolage album by Amon Tobin. Something about this track defines the late nineties for me. It's probably because I listened to Amon Tobin and other similar artists every day during that period of my life (which was filled with uncertainty). The backdrop of US soldiers getting radiation poisoning adds another layer to this track. The images both add to and take away from the track in the sense that it alters what your imagination could conjure up on its own. The track possesses tension, exhaustion and a creeping uncertainty. For me the video adds straight up creepiness to that mix due to the fact that the effects of that footage on these men will never be known to us. That, as well as the fact that nuclear weapons are still all around us and the consequences of that, or hopefully lack thereof, have yet to be fully realized.
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