Los Campesinos - The Sea is a Good Place to Think of the Future
“At fourteen/her mother died/in a routine operation” always guts me, for reasons I’m sure I’ll blurt drunkenly to someone someday.
Besides that: the quiet urgency of the guitar, the slow slice of the violin, the way the band crashes into the chorus...look, I’ve hung out on the beach, and I’ve gotten The Fear and escaped from parties without a word*, and this sounds like what would happen if the two coincided, with nowhere to go but into the sea.
And then the chorus comes in, and it sounds like realizing too late that this wasn’t what you really wanted. Blub blub blub....bloop.
*Editorial Note: I wrote this two days ago, but actually ended up doing this exact thing last night. Prophetic! - Josh
Runner Up: Sigur Ros – Staralfur. “I wonder if it remembers me.” It’s obvious, and probably more than a little hipstery, but this song always takes me back to that scene, and that scene always just goes right through me.
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