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Here’s a hypothetical: say you’re walking down the street, you look down, and laying there before you is a single glove. It’s just there, discarded or forgotten. It’s a nice glove. No, it’s a hell of a nice glove: suede soft as a billowing cloud, stitching precise and ambrosial, tinted in the richest of browns. Touching it makes your fingerprints engorge with blood. Simply looking at it is costing you a week’s salary. It’s quite simply the most exquisite glove you’ve ever seen.

But inside the glove is a severed hand. A severed hand, which was once attached to someone’s forearm, which was wearing this perfect piece of handwear.

My hypothetical is this: what do you do with the glove? Do you turn it into the police along with the hand? Or do you pull a “I swear, officer, the wallet was empty when I found it” thing and turn in the hand while pocketing the glove for your own?

Because that right there is what I felt about doing when I heard Rock Plaza Central’s My Children, Be Joyful for the first time. I adored the song so much, I wondered if I should just keep it to myself and not speak a single solitary word of it to anyone, keeping it as my own private jewel to be admired only by me. Which, I realise, of course, is completely futile and impossible to conceive, but damn it, that soaring bit of folk-flavoured alternarock, with its jostling guitar work, empathetic violins, and harkening brass exclamations is nothing short of captivating and endearing, from its uplifting first chords to its serene deconstruction.

Not to mention Chris Eaton’s wailing, creaking vocals, chanting most proclamatory, channelling Old Man Mangum’s “Jesus Christ I Love You” caterwauling, into a plea which, if we don’t heed, will break the man’s spirit.

I wanted it all to myself. It’s that amazingly good. So yes, I took the glove. But I also took the hand. And I’ve been clutching to both since 2006. So if you ask me, it’s time to give us some new body parts, Rock Plaza Central.

MP3: Rock Plaza Central - My Children, Be Joyful

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