MP3: The Bear Quartet - The lost kid office
This week's Bear Quartet post comes to us from the other Penny Century, now known as Little Big Adventure:
"Guess every fall has its storm / but it's not knocking on my door / as you used to"
I would like to favouritize the latest album "Eternity now" and it's outstanding track "The lost kid office".
At first I thought I should say something about "Suits on for Sandi". Something about how beautiful the lyrics, with its suppressed darkness and sadness, is. With its romantic nostalgia. And the light, but heavy guitar-structures. Ugly but beautiful. Like always with this band. Just in the middle of the best record The Bear Quartet has released. The best song in the trilogy about Sandi.
But then I listen to "The lost kid office". The sound is strange at first. You don't know if it's your speakers that are broken or your ears. Maybe it's supposed to sound like this? Like something coming out of a can. Wet and smeary. It sounds like the song is about to explode, but something is holding it back.
The vocals is so light. So high and wobbly.
You expect Matti's voice to crack at any time. Everything will fall apart.
Soon.
But then something happens. The song explodes. Everything is everywhere. And at that moment I realize that no other song before or after this will ever be so beautiful. So heartbreaking and intelligent. At that moment, this is the best song, the best sound, ever that has come out of a pair of speakers. Everything else falls apart.
I would like to favouritize "The lost kid office".
I would like to.
But I can't.
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The Bear Quartet - The lost kid office