Track:
Here's To Forgetting
Artist:
Parenthetical Girls
Album:
(((Grrrls))) [re-release]
40 plays
If Last.fm is to be believed, the above song, the Parenthetical Girls’ “Heres to Forgetting,” is the single track that I’ve listened to the most during the last 5 years. Which is not at all surprising, considering that I have, on occasion, listened to this song on repeat for what seemed like hours at a time (it’s worth noting that this sort of behavior isn’t common practice for me). I’m not at all embarrassed to admit this to you, though, since “Here’s to Forgetting” strikes me as a song that hits its mark in a very satisfying way. Musically, there’s a lot to love here: the bluntly plunked keys, the nervous pitter-patter of the drumsticks, Zac Pennington’s gently wistful vocals. What really does it for me, though, is the lyrics, which artfully evoke a very specific type of nostalgia—namely, that inexplicable pining we young adults sometimes feel for the not-so-distant past. I also love how that opening image (“Your skin bathed in amber light/And rain streaks”) gets repeated at the end of the song as a fleeting memory, a fact that lends the track an appropriately recursive feeling. Maybe that explains why I can’t help but listen to it on repeat? Finally, it’s worth noting that I revisited (((GRRRLS))) the other day for the first time in a long while and can confirm that it is a terrific, if wholly underrated, record.
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