Willow Willow - "Colusa"

It's no secret that strings and glockenspiels sound nice together, nor that vibraphones and pretty female voices make for a pleasing combination. Lord knows, I'm not saying anything of any note whatsoever. (If you're still reading, you just wasted fifteen minutes of your life!). Combining those elements is like putting olives and feta into your pasta and tomato sauce: it's more or less cheating your way to the sublime. Willow Willow is guilty of the former crime and therefore should be put to death; except that there's something slightly out of the ordinary about the backdrop against which their winsome instruments are set, which pushes the song beyond the merely nice. Namely, note the manner in which the acoustic guitar is played: roundly and sprucely and ever so carefully - an element that acts in the context of the song just as taking a painful bite out of a cold, crisp apple does in the context of a lazy, unfocused day.

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