O, how the world, with you, does wax dreary,
As the ocean's drawn, like tears, by pale moon,
So white, so deep. How mind and voice do croon
And swirl in ceaseless eddies, You, weary,
But nonetheless connected as the tide,
And thorough as a summer's day, and wide
As continents, spanning ages, grinding
Jagged stone to grain, all without changing.
Yet, comfort is a precarious thing,
Chalked and hollowed it may appear,
So weighted are these words, they do not sing
To distant virgins, rather, to your ear
They whisper gently, with a will to be,
And in an instant float back out to sea
credits
from Pity Slash Love,
released May 7, 2013
Written, performed and recorded by Matt Smith
supported by 8 fans who also own “Once For Joseph”
This is a most exciting surprise bag of unusual songs, each of them thoroughly different from the other ones. But they have one thing in common: They are ingenious. It's not easy to find a drawer where to put this music in. I'm reluctant to use the term "experimental", because this can mean anything, and nothing as well. Out of the established genres, "alternative rock" probably fits best, but this music is so alternative that it blows up the confines of the genre. In my collection, I'm tagging music like this as "avantgarde", to express that it's somehow ahead of the usual listening experiences. Sven B. Schreiber (sbs)
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