Pitchfork

Ola Podrida is the brainchild of David Wingo, an Austin-born, Brooklyn-based composer best known for scoring David Gordon Green's three films. His forthcoming debut on Plug Research is full of low-key, minimally orchestrated indie folk not too far removed from Great Lake Swimmers or Band of Horses' quieter moments. "Cindy" is his loudest song, but also the one whose music best matches its subject matter.

It begins unassumingly, with an acoustic guitar playing a three-note alarm as Wingo sings about a girl leaving her childhood home. After about a minute and a half, the song ignites when she sets fire to the house and walks nonchalantly away. As the volume increases, the melody becomes more insistent, the guitars pile up, and Cindy discovers she's forgotten her library books and runs inside to retrieve them. Leaving the resolution open-ended-- did she die (or, worse, get charged late fees?)-- "Cindy" plays out like an oddly enthralling short film.