Sweep The Past Mistakes Away

Boots “Only”

This song feels like a cousin to Radiohead’s “Nude,” and falls into a similar aesthetic territory in which terror, depression, and anxiety is rendered in this oddly graceful and sexy way. A lot of that comes from how the arrangement feels like a jazzy R&B ballad that’s been gutted to the point that only the scaffolding remains, and the way Boots’ voice has the echo of someone alone in a big, bombed-out empty space. He’d sound lonely and desperate even if he wasn’t being very literal in the lyrics and singing “I am the only one alive / that is the only thing I know,” but I appreciate him going in hard on the post-apocalyptic vibe. There’s maybe too much post-apocalypse in tv, movies, and comics, but you really don’t get much of it in music.

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