Spandau Ballet once sung a song about gold that was used in the 1984 Los Angeles games and it was all like “GOLD! Always believe in your soullllaaahhalll! You’ve got the powah to KNOW you’re indestructible woah” etc etc and it was fun at the time.

However, Gold by The Infinity Chamber (TIC) is nothing like that but is a deceptively technical finger style arrangement a la mode du Donovan with maybe a small side dish of Nick Drake. When I asked TIC what the song is about he tells me:

[The track was] finished in the hot summer of 2004 when I was living in Yildiz, Istanbul. I’d been listening to some early Bowie recordings. It’s a song essentially about how now – right now – although it may not feel so – is tomorrow’s Halcyon time. We will look back one day upon now with soft sentimentality and longing. It’s a strange notion, that we’re walking in tomorrow’s dream

Now at this point I’d hilariously be trying to bend the corners of Spandau Ballet, Nick Drake, TIC and Donovan to some kind of cogent point, but I can’t be bothered quite frankly, so I’ll shut up and let you enjoy the song.

GO. FOR. GOLD!