Hi All!
Another Music Monday here!
This week I’m going to be talking about a song that took a while for me to realize how much I liked. “Laser Beams” by Wintersleep (From way back in 2007), is the kind of song that I liked enough to add to my yearly playlist, but something about the intro made me skip it almost every time it queued up, until one day I was too far from a control device, and was more or less forced to listen to it play out.
I say forced. After about forty five seconds I was too intrigued by the way it was building to want to change it even if I could. So I kept listening, and while there was something definitely odd about it, I realized that I loved the song.
It wasn’t until I listened to it a few times that I realized what was odd. There’s no chorus. It’s just a series of verses, building in musical intensity until it culminates in a rather rocking breakdown. The part of my brain that still think it works in TV production wants to use it for a huge dramatic scene.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvbMmVKhkRA
Anyway, I hope you like it, but even if you don’t (or you just think my analysis is way off base) let me know.
Peace!
FGY