sometimes when people talk about music they say about how songs ‘scratch an itch’ as if they’re some sort of soothing balm you can apply—an easy fix to do-away with discomfort. the 26 tracks that make up this release from free city do the opposite, and are maybe best described as the audio equivalent of an unreachable insect-bite located under a tightly fitted arm cast you got after crashing your bicycle into a .
that maybe sounds like a bad thing but its important to remember to we’re not babies and not everything needs to be comfortable and convenient all the time and maybe an itch that you can’t quite reach is quite nice every now and again. songs dont need to be four minutes long anymore. not everything needs a capital letter. a photo of Alex Pereira straight off Google Images will be a better cover of your CD-R than any posed portrait you hire someone to take. soothing balms are overrated.
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