Crumble In The Sunshine

Gardens & Villa “Carrizo Plain”

I’m not usually into this sort of slow, sad, cinematic cowboy music but I find myself entranced by the way this unfolds over five minutes. The guitar, percussion and keyboard parts hang loosely in place, but suggest a heavy gravitational pull. The vocal melody winds around gently until it seems to knot like a noose on the repetition of the line “you and I are intertwined.” A lot of bands try and fail to capture this sort of desperate, desolate vibe, but this is exactly right. It sounds sorta like the Shins dying slowly in the middle of an endless desert.

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