No Little Kindness - "Cast Off Your Troubles"
No Little Kindness bring a slow build, they build a song the way a boat builds a wake. A beautiful spreading path of their trajectory, at once a mess and a swirling cloud of colours, choirs, comas. That thud-thud-thud I like to imagine is a diving board, rattling from someone jumping off. One every second.
No Little Kindness - "Shall Not Be Moved"
And here, a better song for walking in a group down a dirt road at midday I have not heard. The tambourine kicks up a dust that is blown quickly away by the wind of the voices, and they both soon snowball into a storm. The heat of the sun like a lead blanket, and the white white white church to the side, it's just the statement "shall not be moved" with no subject that I like. It starts with "I shall not be moved", but by the end it's just the predicate shouted with so much energy the meaning is unnecessary.
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Posted by Dan at September 7, 2007 7:42 PMit's good, just your introduction paragraphs to the songs sound more like a plea for word-masturbation. great band.
Posted by c1356 at September 8, 2007 1:46 PMi disagree, i think the words match the songs perfectly (simple.beautiful.)
Posted by nuh-uh! at September 8, 2007 4:50 PMTorn. Didn't like some of the words and I liked the music enough to forget about it. Disagree that either the music or words are simple. "Trajectory", for example, seems like a awkward word choice to use in describing that song. Boating metaphor is clever but can't sail under weight of a patched on diving board. Neither "lead blanket", "white white white", or "predicate" feel natural to me. Could have been stronger because the dirt road story is a good fit and has lot of potential. The music feels very natural. Thanks for the introduction.
Posted by Delivery at September 8, 2007 9:39 PM
and it will begin playing. All songs are also available to download: just right-click the link and choose 'Save as...'
