![]() ![]() Hope and heartache, to meet us where we are. Voices we love and long for, come to us in our affliction. The circularity of coverage soothes, quelling the adrenalin with the warm comfort of familiar. Mostly solo, too, or at least done at home – like everything is, and has been, since the world shrunk down to staircases and silences, with nowhere else to tour or play, bandmates quarantined in different cities, and all of us alone, in our own darknesses. Here, to bring the familiar into the strange. Melancholy wrung from the masking chords of the synth-pop seventies and yesterday: pop and grunge rock and roll, all painted with the veneer of unsettledness that characterizes the world. New song lyrics and releases speak of coming to terms with, missing, absence: familiar themes of hope and longing magnified in every fraught moment.Ĭovers come this way, too. ![]() Piano and strings serve the mood as much as the slow guitar. A certain melancholy characterizes the songs of the world now.
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