I was a 15 years old boy when my mother bought AMSP as a gift for me. A decade later this song still sounds in my head and I keep on finding textures on it.
I was with my mother and sister in a shopping center in Buenos Aires and rushed to my house with the CD on my hands desperate to see the artwork inside. I wasn't planning to play it in my computer or anything, I didn't have any device to put it on but my heart was filled with emotion just by the fact of having a solid, original piece of music in my hands, I opened up the envelope and that long, illogical title was the first thing I noticed and the first song I played of this record.
Everything starts with this bell-like sound and a distorted beat, in a calm, safe but cold atmosphere that gives way to Thom's voice in a couple of seconds. A funny thing is that the vibe in this track is not sad and broken as the rest of the album, here all the elements, the singing and I'd say even the lyrics, transmit the feeling of being in a cold but familiar space.
"All the holes at once
Are coming alive, set free
Out of sight and out of mind
The lonely and their prey"
Thom signs these lines that even in its abstraction, we can get that sense of danger blend with calmness. The song evolves later to an very pleasant mixture of strings, delicate drums that are a bit difficult to hear because they have low volume (which is a very spot on decision in this song) but play a hard to perform and complex pattern and those always very delightful electric elements that are very familiar to the band.
The lyrics have a lot of animal and natural elements which is something I think that contributes to give an organic feature to the track and that, together to the set of strings, gives a sense of "life" to the whole thing.
A beautiful, beautiful hidden gem which gives the record a special warmth.
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