The tugboat of spring is finally pulling in the piece of flotsam which is my heart back to the dock of joy. It had been lost in a sea of cold, white snowbanks three-to-four metres tall, coral reefs of hand-blistering snow shovels, and pirate snowplow raiders ruining all my fine work.

But nautical metaphors aside, I am thrilled that the weather is becoming milder and milder and that the snowstuff is finally, slowly, eeking away. The omnipresent whiteness was definitely cattle prodding my good mood, so it’s nice to feel my spirits thaw along.

Considering that, an observer could assume there’s something self-hating in writing about a song whose title is White Winter Hymnal when I’m so thankful for the seasonal melt. But, in fact, it’s very therapeutic to place winter to the forefront when it’s going away for a few months. Makes me feel strong. Makes me feel in control. Makes me feel like taking a deep breath. A deep, manly breath.

But all this really doesn’t have anything to do with Fleet Foxes’ psychedelic, pastoral dream of a song. Because that song, White Winter Hymnal, despite its referencing to my most reviled of seasons, is a grand litany of sweeping, ethereal proportions. Something completely otherworldly overtakes the song and places us smack in the middle of a harmonically idyllic soundscape of resonating chorals and scintillating wonder. And I swear, if a January day could make me feel exactly like that, I would probably own snowshoes.

MP3: Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal

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