Exclusive Stream: Emil and Friends' Bouncy 'Prescriptions'

Emil

John Durgee

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"Prescriptions," the shimmery, poppy first track from Emil and Friends' new album, Lo and Behold, is full of vibrant sounds that can make the summer seem endless. Lo and Behold will be the first full-length album from the artist formerly known as Emile, following last year's EP Downed Economy. Band mastermind Emil Hewitt says he stumbled onto a sound that he believes will  "pull the listener into a sleeping bag on the shingled roof of their best friend's house, or place them wandering midsummer through a field so familiar that they are guided through the dark by memory instead of moonlight." Absurd? Sure, but perhaps it's just crazy enough to be true – towards the end of the track Emil blissfully croons, over and over, "It will make sense when I'm older."

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Song Stories

“Push It”

Salt-N-Pepa | 1987

Originating as a B side to their cover of the Stax classic “Tramp,” Cheryl “Salt” James, Sandi “Pepa” Denton and Dee Dee “DJ Spinderella” Roper came up with the goods on this career-making, Grammy-nominated platinum single about working it on the dancefloor. “Push It” has been sampled and spliced to death since it debuted in 1987, yet the original track is as fresh and fly as when SNP — among the few original women of hip-hop — debuted it. “Most men will never believe ‘Push It’ was never about sex,” said James. “And that’s why the record went to Number One,” said Denton. “Everybody thought it was about sex.”

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