it’s one of my all-time favorite Cocteau Twin songs. a bit more obscure, on the b-side of the Aikea-Guinea ep. i got this ep on vinyl at some point during my lonely years and Quisquose felt like the perfect, most precious accompaniment. i love the plodding piano. banging slight dissonances. Liz’s cacophonous howls. it doesn’t …
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come to me
The last 2 minutes + 30 seconds of “Follow Me” by Sweet Trip can count on its own as one of my favorite songs ever. It combines all the musical elements I love: dreamy guitars, reverb, dreamy male/female vocals, electronics, and a pounding dance beat. Seconds resolving to thirds, sevenths resolving to the root – …
music vs lyrics
embarrassingly for me, it is not usually about the lyrics. a song gets me with its melody, its chord progression, its impeccable choice of instrumentation. maybe not something to be so embarrassed about. after all, throughout college i had this whole thesis brewing in my head about how words are a mere articulation, oftentimes a …