What's The Story?
This tune is up there in the league of All Along The Watchtower for could-potentially-be-my-favorite-ever-ever. Thrice are a post-rock band from California; this track is from one of their earlier albums, The Illusion of Safety.
Who's To Blame?
A guy whose band in high school was called The Swiss Goggles.
Why ♥ It?
At just a scant 2:35, this song quickly and effectively hits hard. The best part by far is the breakdown to just vocals and guitar at 1:31. It posits an honesty that, although not unique, is definitely attractive. There's nothing complex about the whiny punk vocal or power chords coming from the guitar, but you can just feel that they mean it. That part alone is worth the price of admission.
The following transition back into the song proper features an energetic drum roll/spasm, and then kicks back immediately to the refrain with a well-placed key change. There's a tiny pregnant pause between that transition and the new-key rehash of the chorus, and that ever-brief silence gives a beautiful moment of musical anticipation that I really don't have a good comparison for. It's just perfect.
I always love the lead guitar of Teppei Taranshi, he has a way of giving another channel to experience Thrice's music with distracting leads during the verses, and See You In The Shallows shows this off as well as any Thrice song. The guitar rarely does the same thing twice in this song.
The lyrics are a spectacle as well; although repetitive for the second half of the song, I have a perfect picture in my head of the cliffs and the water and the jump, and I blame it entirely on the lyrical craft.
Long story short, I really really really love this song. There's probably no way it'll stand up to the praise I'm heaping on it here, but that's the fun in being the writer rather than the reader.
...Sorry about that.
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