C'mon Tigre — Ceiling Drip Gospel feat. TYTO

“Ceiling Drip Gospel" is the fourth single C'mon Tigre have unveiled from their forthcoming album. The song also appears on TYTO's new album which will be released via RDR / Peermusic Italia. The song is a domestic gospel for houses that are falling apart. Walls leak, doors won't open, and you end up talking to ghosts more than to people. That nameless state somewhere between letting yourself go a little and barely keeping your head above water. Small loops of survival. And yet this is not a song about abandonment: it is a song that holds the pieces together while everything around it gives way.

The track started as an old poem TYTO wrote in the days following David Bowie's death, and grew through a conversation with C'mon Tigre. The collaboration has long roots: Beppe Scardino has played with C'mon Tigre since their very first tour, sixteen years ago, and is one of the collective's foundational instrumental voices. "Ceiling Drip Gospel" marks the first time the two projects have truly met on record, in a shared space where their two worlds coexist.

After C'mon Tigre's English vocals comes the final piece: a Japanese section written and rapped by Caterina Yuka Sforza (Nicaragua, Dumbo Gets Mad), Italo-Japanese, who takes the song somewhere else without moving it to a different room. The rain falls, water seeps through the wall, footsteps splash through puddles, and there is a longing for a dokodemo-doa, Doraemon's door-that-leads-anywhere, to fly away. Until all that remains is to hold hands with your memories and let the water carry you. Nagareyou. Let ourselves go.

Musically, the track is built around a super groovy, C'mon Tigre-style guitar riff. Underneath, a dry electronic rhythm: kick and snare, slow 4-on-the-floor. Above, a chorus of flutes and walls of synth carving out a cinematic theme.

Towards the end, there is room for a reggaeton outro, understated and hypnotic, that closes everything floating. Nocturnal, cinematic, with that electronic art rock spirit that runs through the album.