From the echo chambers of a gothic cathedral, distant choral voices ricochet through the cloisters, cluster in the crypt, swarm and swell before shooting out through the medieval stained glass windows. Setting off in a steep upward trajectory, ‘You Said’ is a flashlight beam into furthest outer-space, peeking sunlight through gaps in the cloud, aeroplane trails across a dark horizon. At the very same time, this both sounds massive – an orb of nebulous guitar and honey-dripping vocals, and also microscopically small – just a soap bubble, pretty, but destructed on contact.
Maybe this simultaneously expansive and tiny sound is because of the song’s structure: just under four minutes of hooks and vaporous, veiled harmonies, that could so easily be extended into a ten-minute vertiginous journey. As it is, this makes four minutes seem like an abrupt thirty seconds. I realise that good things never last, but I wish my turntable would play this for just a little longer.
Couldn't have put it better myself...
...now go see!
http://www.drownedinsound.com/content/view/724457
I saw these guys live with My Latest Novel the other day
Why haven't I heard them before? Fantastic, haven't been this excited about a band I've just seen for a good while.
You have
an impressively expansive vocabularly, rachel c. Either that or an extremely good synonym fuction on Word.
i have a scrabble playing family
thats wot. I yell "hey mum, what's that word for the bloke who's the maine part of the story thing" and then she reels off a list that I choose from. Ie, walking thesauri
yeah right. it's blatantly the Word thing.
i'm off to look for a word thing
MORE!!! outrageous vocab, yes please!!!! my aim is to make no sense at all, ever...