SALTPETER

Announced by an eerie trickle of piano notes atop a chorused roar, and concluded with the delicate reprise of an otherwise insistent melody, "Saltpeter," moody and theatrical, stands as the Concord number with intensity to spare. Like "Archie," the first incarnation was a short, lyrical motif that was swept up in the spirit invoked by Gabe's response to it: this time, garage-rock.