The song itself is beautifully simple. Starting with just
steady strummed acoustic guitar, a male vocal, and its female counterpart
singing back and forth to one another. Some really beautiful harmonies then
come into play, backed by a velvety string section laying down the smooth ice
for the duos vocals to skate over. The song ends again with the same male vocal
and guitar.
Perfect balance and a leading focus that the buoyant ride that the song trails you
along for. It starts down, moves up and opens itself up sonically and there’s a
sense of release, before it resolves again with the same sound that it started
with. Great resolve, great arrangement, and a really great song.
I get a real “couple talking back and forth to each other
here”. The songwriting is great and that “oh red heart, dressed in blue” line
is going to be sticking with me for a long time after I take off my headphones.
Check Scott out online at: http://scottmackay.ca/
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