100 favourite songs: #28: "El President" - Drugstore (featuring Thom Yorke)

That evocative first line, “It came from the skies”, tremulous and upsoaring, is a perfect opening, invoking and capturing the widescreen, impressionistic mood of this all-too-brief spaghetti opera; Isabel Monteiro and Thom Yorke trade stanzas and lines with blue-eyed conviction over furiously strummed guitars and long, moody cello lines, and it’s all too wonderful for words.