Cranfield and Slade<U+2019>s misremembered version, which plays forward on side A and in reverse on side B, is only the refrain section of the Pop-O-Pies<U+2019> remake, as if stuck on a partially remembered fragment of the song. The physical and mechanical action of flipping the record over (and over) suggests a perpetual loop, forever inhibiting the ability to fully recall the original. Cranfield and Slade are interested in the role pop music plays in simultaneously expressing and commodifying<U+2014>and thereby potentially undermining<U+2014>genuine feelings such as happiness and sadness. That ambiguity is inherent to pop music, which is somehow felt to be as intimate and precious as it is contrived and indifferent, a mere commercial good. Choosing neither side over the other, Cranfield and Slade consider the dialectic of the two to be most significant.--Fillip.

Sunshine Daydream/Maerdyad Enihsnus came out of 12 Sun Songs, a concept album made up of cover songs from the 60s and 70s about the sun, but it took on a thematic life of its own as a dedicated 7” record.--Fillip.