musicwar: Song of the Day: March 31, 2016 SVIIB, “On My…
Song of the Day: March 31, 2016
SVIIB, “On My Heart”
I’ve posted here about SVIIB before – back when Benjamin Curtis passed in late 2013. It was shocking then and is still hard to wrap my head around now.
The fact that his band was able to actually write and record music this generous and open-hearted before he passed (while he was so sick) is almost incomprehensible, sort of like the rabbit-from-hat trick Bowie also recently pulled off.
Curtis was involved both creatively and romantically with the band’s only remaining member, Alejandra Deheza. This is an album full of the ghosts of that relationship – love, friendship, ups, downs – and so it makes perfect sense that the video that best represents their final work together is the visual manifestation of what it feels like to viscerally feel the trace effects of someone after you’ve lost them. Are they shadows, ravens, angels, blurry versions of the people they were when they were still alive? We all have our own answers for those questions, I guess.
I love music so sad and majestic that it actually makes you glad to be alive. It’s periodically good to realize that beautiful melodies and lyrics can still reduce you to inexplicable tears. I can’t live in that space forever, but I can sure enjoy it for the length of a well-crafted album.
“With me your love’s safe.” Is there a cooler, more affirmative thing you can tell someone while they’re still alive to hear it? (CdB)
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