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Originally Posted by trackaghost
It's weird how everyone is saying this song is experimental because if anything this song is stripped down, lo-fi, and sounds to me as if it was sung and performed exactly as written.
Whoever said it was influenced by old school bluegrass and Americana was spot on. To my ears that's neither quirky or experimental. As I said before it reminds me a little of 60's folk singer Nick Drake.
I would kill for an entire album like this. You guys can keep the shiny, overproduced pop. I like the raw Lindsey more.
As for the lyrics, I don't care who or what it's about, it just sounds good.
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The experimental part is the syncopic aproach in songwriting. Vocal melodylines and the melody in the pickinglines are drifting from eachother. (the reason Johnny Stew don't like it so much and the reason why I think it's a masterpiece.) Nick Drake was a master at that, too, so I think you're spot on with that comparison. It makes it so undigestible for the listener that wants to be catched by popstructure. The big difference with his work on GOS and SYW is the production that you call lo-fi. The picking sounds so much more warm. I really hear the strings resonate, something I totally missed in Say Goodbye (studio). That picking was syncopic, too but had it's effect mainly in the dazzling pace. Here it has so much more emotion in itself. Then the overly vulnerable and "naked" vocals strike me more then he has ever done. It really is a step further in his development as a songwriter. And he's going my way: To the core of the emotion, raw and direct. Like he did vocally during Never going back again-live and Say Goodbye-live. If he makes an album full of this sort of directness, I'll be the happiest man on earth. H*ll, I'd even pay for Johnny Stews copy.
PS. I repeat: For me this is his Save Me A Place part 2. But 25 years later: I'll always provide a place for me in you. (don't read this sexual please I'm dutch and searching for words
) His singing is so strong imo, because it reminds me of the way you try to sing for a child that's almost asleep: whispering doesn't work, you'll have to give SOME voice to keep melody. So is the guitarwork: it goes round like a small tin musicbox.