In this installment of BackStory, Princess Pangolin’s Julie Carpenter tells us the story behind her song “Heatwave.” If Mark Frauenfelder of BoingBoing says it’s good, you know it is. You can catch Princess Pangolin at LA’s Echoplex on April 1. This song started with the pizzicato violin riff…I started playing that and humming the melody. It was one of those things that just falls complete out of the aether, without a lot of “What next?” Sometimes the chords tell you exactly what to do. I also knew immediately that it needed sparkly Omnichord strums.
