Jack Penate (pronounced pen-YAH-teh) first came onto the radar in 2007 with his great 50s-rockabilly-inspired EP Spit at Stars. Fast forward to 2009. What a difference two years makes! Penate has discovered Afrobeat, and has used it to create one of the catchiest tunes of the year.
In addition to discovering Afrobeat, Penate has uncovered the linguistic phenomenon known as rhetorical metathesis. Basically, when you change word order in sentences for a better "flow", you're using this process. In the case of this song, Penate sings "Tonight's Today, Today's Tonight, Tonight's Today" as the chorus. Clearly, he's switching the word order around in order to reproduce a certain feeling-in this case, the sense that every day is the same, and involves a haze of drug and alcohol induced confusion. Or possibly zombies.
Here's the awesome black and white video for the song. I think I may have had a dream like this once. Whoa.
Jack Peñate - Tonight's Today
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