This Year 365 songs: February 9th
Feb. 9th, 2026 06:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
js_thrillToday we are treated to Some Swedish Trees
I like this song a lot. The music reminds me a bit of the opening to Amy AKA Spent Gladiator, and the annotations return to Darnielle's meditations on his penchant for indirect narrative. The lyrics here leave one with a lot of questions, if you focus on them as a narrative, but (as Darnielle notes), the tone is not one of intentional secret-keeping. It is more like eavesdropping on bits of a story being told at a nearby table in a coffeeshop, and missing pieces as a result of only hearing the parts spoken loud enough to reach you.
I like this song a lot. The music reminds me a bit of the opening to Amy AKA Spent Gladiator, and the annotations return to Darnielle's meditations on his penchant for indirect narrative. The lyrics here leave one with a lot of questions, if you focus on them as a narrative, but (as Darnielle notes), the tone is not one of intentional secret-keeping. It is more like eavesdropping on bits of a story being told at a nearby table in a coffeeshop, and missing pieces as a result of only hearing the parts spoken loud enough to reach you.
