A Cosmic Game Of Meetings

Shamir “On My Own”

Shamir Bailey’s guitar parts on “On My Own” remind me how Pixies songs could feel raw and brutish but also graceful and gleaming at the same time. Bailey’s lyrics do a similar thing, where he’s pushing through dark and lonely feelings towards a softer, more self-accepting state of mind. The point, at least in this song, is that this is all a continuum, and the rough defines the smooth. The most powerful parts of the song are when his voice conveys vulnerability and triumph in equal measure, as if to underline that the vulnerability kinda IS the triumph here.

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