Afternoons
So delightful, it's worth a goat
Listen, if we were still in some kind of barter system, I’d gladly trade in a goat for a copy of the Afternoons’ first EP. Yes, a goat: a full-blown, robust, tin can eating, milk making goat. Not a chicken, nor a weasel. Yeah, weasels. I’d have weasels. I’d raise weasels on my farm. What, you think a weasel rancher is so hard to imagine? You’d be surprised at how many new release rentals you could get at the video store for a weasel.
But I digress. A goat to enjoy the Afternoons in their first recording glory is what I would offer, and I do this solely based on the strength of their song Say Yes!; it’s a delightful symphonic celebration, an uplifting musical pageant of optimistic whimsy, marching jubilantly in harmonic bliss like a wandering militia performing an ebullient, sunshiny tattoo. It quite literally sweeps you up with its irresistible strokes, calling upon a vast instrumentation working in seamless symmetry to stage its infective melody with vigor. Glittering guitars, brisk drums, and enthusiastic horns share the stage with complicit warmth alongside, church bells, piccolos, and operatic background vocals, with the lyrics delivered in poised, knowing eagerness.
It’s so jubilant, even the goat would be happy to be traded.
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