Song #96: mae - Summertime
I sincerely apologize to the seven people that read these posts. I've been working on a rig with handicapped internet.
Ahh, summertime. The very first song I heard by mae. This song is spectacular for several reasons. First of all, that repeated piano riff straddles the line between pleasant and annoying...but it never leaves you. Even in the euphoria of the the pulsating guitars chugging through the chorus, you're still longing for that piano to come back! Second, the buildup before the lyric "driving away" is fantasmatical. Yes, it constitutes the use of an imaginary word. The third and most relevant reason is that it even features piano!
If you've heard the travesty that is Mae's most recent album: Suckularity (I'm so coy), you may notice that the pop sensibilities and piano ballads found on Everglow are all but eradicated. To add to that, they got rid of their keyboardist a couple months ago. Unfortunate to the max.
Uhh so go enjoy this song!
1 comment:
Cool song. I don't think I'd heard it before, but I know my brother has that CD.
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