Do you have hope?
I know – it’s a heavy question – particularly at this time of writing when the coronavirus is reshaping the planet – but – maybe because of that – the question has validity.
So…
Do you?
Do you really?
Do you have hope?
Grief is the absence of hope – the physical response to a future that can never be.
Most grief doesn’t mourn the past – it mourns a future.
But what if there was no hope?
What if what you needed to be whole could never be yours?
How then would you see the world?
I adore this track.
It’s so deliciously, gloriously bleak.
It takes me back to the genesis of the list, when all I wanted to do was to sit and wallow in music that got me – that understood that a Rubicon had been crossed and that life would never be the same again.
And yet…
Here’s the thing motherfuckers!
There’s so much hope in this track.
Oh sure – there’s the nihilistic verses and overall vibe – but that middle section – that beautiful expression of “unplaylistability” – an explosion of groove and fiddles and harmonies and all the things that go to make up an artistic statement to be proud of – I dare you to tell me there’s no hope in here.
And of course,
If you still doubted,
They did find each other 🙂
Interview with First the Winter