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On the heels of the underground smash “I Saw a Flying Saucer,” The Special Pillow are proud to unleash our second sensational single of 2025 (30 years in showbiz!): a potassium-rich version of conguero George Guzman’s “Banana Freak Out”!

Mr. Guzman’s version, featured on his collectable 1968 Fania Records debut, Introducing George Guzman, tweaked the then-topical “electric banana” craze/hoax. With that as a launching peel, the Pillow have taken the track into a vortex of plantain-fueled dementia, described by esteemed recording engineer Mitch Rackin as “possibly the best psych-goth Latin soul cover I mixed all week.” And yes, somehow there is a goth element! Deal with it. We are doing our best, and we wanna get high.

For the past three decades, The Special Pillow have operated from the margins of the marginal, creating a distinctive string-driven sound—a heady brew encompassing concise ’60s-flavored pop gems, dreamy psychedelic reveries, and a propulsive drive redolent of the antipodean indie acts of the ‘80s.

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