“And this folk music’s fucking me up, makes me think I should quit,” he sings. Jenkins starts out with some honest, brutal self-doubt. Melodically, it’s similar to past hit “Motorcycle Drive-By.” It appears to be a conversation between Jenkins and a younger musician. “Silverlake Neophyte” is one of the most lyrically interesting songs. Jenkins and Colin Holbrook handled that on the album. It’s like the song is being driven in reverse. The driving, upbeat guitar sounds like the end of a chanted anthem (“Again! Again! Again!”) before transitioning to a solo and finally to an actual verse.
“Again,” however, seems to start with an outro. One of the sexy things about rock music is the way a traditional song builds to an orgasmic place and then comes down. It’s a light, fluffy, cruising-with-the-top-down bit of pop. Jenkins has described the song as “a horny surf-rock duet,” but for a song explicitly about sex (“You make me want to get it again,” they sing over and over), the groove is not actually very sexy. “Again” is one of two collaborations a duet with Bethany Cosentino of Best Coast.
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