Windsor For The Derby
When the little things are too big
We all get these days where we’re a little more sensitive, don’t we? You know, where seemingly insignificant stuff suddenly gets us bent out of shape? Maybe it’s the overcast sky that’s getting you down. Maybe it’s some jerk in the street who bumped into you and didn’t turn around to apologise. Maybe you really, really wanted to have stir fry but they were out of bok choy at the market. Then bang, wham: anxiety ripples over your entire self and you can’t shake it.
Small events like these, on any another day, wouldn’t even remotely faze you; but today, they just crawl under your skin and settle themselves in like a cold fog. Your perspective gets skewered.
That’s when you develop a dependence to musical acts like pensive post-rockers Windsor For The Derby who make delicate, airy arrangements of music rooted in both wistfulness and hope. For instance, there’s a definite undercurrent of loss which purveys a song like Hold On, yet it maintains a sense of hope, of the setting loose of abandoned regrets, of the release from the past, regardless of how tortuously it clings to us. The song’s deeply intimate feel seems performed in complete confidence, whispered in boundless complicity, and glimmers in its glorious, yet humble, promises of better times.
And you sometimes need that kind of elevation to remind yourself at how insignificant your little troubles are.
MP3: Windsor For The Derby - Hold On
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