Sharon Van Etten - "Our Love". I have probably listened to this song 75 times. You can consider me an expert. So after you have listened once, twice, 70 times, what I am going to suggest is that you listen to the moment just after 2:24, when this pretty song sounds an awkward, human beat. The overblown tom drum, or whatever it is, feels less like a beat than like an utterance - a confession from the rhythm section, a plea, a belch, something messily & bodily, less considered than the rest of the song. Less finely wrought. In such a pretty track, the human part is crucial:the sigh of a bending guitar string; the fading strain of Van Etten's voice. The suggestion that "Our Love" isn't just the recollection of feeling but a feeling itself. That it isn't theatre: it's a moment in time, remembered.
(photo via Alexis O'Hara)
Posted by Sean at October 2, 2014 11:20 AMAlexis O'Hara! I haven't seen her in ten years! Worlds colliding!
Posted by anis at October 2, 2014 7:56 PM
and it will begin playing. All songs are also available to download: just right-click the link and choose 'Save as...'
