current_favourite_song past "the big one" by ken yates and kathleen edwards "when the sky is falling i won't turn and run i'll be holding your hand when the big one comes." 230819 ... raze molly drake's "i remember", recorded at home in tanworth-in-arden on reel-to-reel tape sometime in the 1950s. nick drake's mother was a brilliant artist in her own right. she chose to keep her artistry to herself, only ever performing her songs for a few close friends and family members. her music wasn't distributed in any meaningful way until just ten years ago, and the album that was released is long since out of print. this examination of the way emotion colours memory is so sadly beautiful, it almost hurts to hear it. (that's rodney, molly's husband of fifty years, saying, "i should think that's pretty good," just before the tape cuts out.) 230823 ... tender_square "soul changing" by maya isacowitz. the track is part of my masseur's playlist when she's working to dispel tension and energies with her hands. isacowitz's voice is bell-clear throughout. the song has a gradual rise that builds to an incredible height around the halfway mark where a dark guitar note is elongated and repeated. an electronic whirl that is only hinted at in a beginning motif asserts itself with greater force too, charging the song with the gale-force sound of change. 230826 ... raze "save it for later" by the (english) beat. i'm sitting here trying to work out how the hell i've been alive for more than four decades and only just_now heard this glorious song for the first time. the pete townshend cover is pretty great too. the original and the reimagining feel like two sides of the same scuffed coin. the singleminded surge of youth gives way to something weathered and weary but no less necessary. you don't always grow up. sometimes you just grow. (sooner or later your legs give way. you hit the ground. save it for later. don't run away and let me down.) 260104 what's it to you? who go blather from