This song is everything I need right now:
As a words person, I’m frantically trying to learn the language it takes to describe the sonic landscapes that are really doing it for me these days, and thanks to everyone who’s been patient with me in trying to get more of it into my system (Evan Scott Matt and for the Flume tip, Samyak)!
It’s got all the swelling instrumentation, sweet layered vocals, and slow-attack bass of this:
…but with far more appropriate lyrics for my current state of mind: that strange sort of “anticipated grief” or pre-nostalgia that comes on the verge of a purposeful decision that’s going to change a Whole Lot all at once. [I’ve written previously about the related feelings that come after the shift.]
Plus a healthy dose of the same overall feeling — that I love, by the way — of “we-are-ultimately-alone-but-there’s-redemption-in-that” contained in this:
…and described in a sequence of (in my opinion) genius, resonant words in the recent NYT article, Why you will marry the wrong person:
Anyhoo. So much going on in the head and the heart these days and the right music is so, so helpful.
Elizabeth Ü 