8/2/2023 0 Comments Gord downie young![]() ![]() Like a folk song, “Yer Ashore” bounces its little hook and simple words back and forth through a cute and campfire-like swing. Stagnating his vocals on building strings, “My First Girlfriend” is a quaint look back at Downie’s young love, pulling some beautiful moments out of the otherwise repetitive track. “Faith Faith” strips things away for brutally sad and personal lyrics as Downie sings to his lover with deep passion, letting the bubbling pathos of the track hold it down. Thumping through the echo on “A Natural” there’s an electric undercurrent that makes the song explode with life as Downie snakes his vocals around wondrously through the organically toned percussion. “Spoon” hits its groove statically, expanding and shrinking each instrument’s loop to add a fun sense of dynamics as Downie yells thanks to a friend who clearly gave a lot to his life. Slow-burning the smoky chords on “Safe Is Dead” as the spritely hook dances around the keys, as harmonies slowly swell to make the track a dense and worrying ballad. Carrying tones of Arcade Fire on “Ricky Please” there’s tons of dance beats to piano and drums that make Downie’s aggressive vocals all the more exhilarating on one of the album’s most exciting tracks. 5” grinds its guitar lines as he reflects on a slowly budding relationship over letters, and the small details that make them stand out. With brilliant and swelling melodies, “Introduce Yerself” has a slowly unfurling shine to its main hook that holds an emotional core as Downie’s loving words of his gratefulness give the track a tear-inducing heft. Fairly simple melodically, “Bedtime” has such an intimate tale of those moments with loved ones that we don’t even words for. “Wolf’s Home” grooves on its jangly guitars and simple narrative, as the streamlined percussion keeps the song direct and lively, even as it builds into more ethereal moments. Through the harmonies and strange vocal splices, the song has a warped sense of emotion that’s all too hard to take. Covering a range of sounds and even genres while he’s at it, Downie’s last record hits all the heartstrings while showing he was a songwriting powerhouse.īrooding through its dense piano chords, ‘First Person’ starts the album with a hard-driving beat and delicate vocals that feel as pained as they do sincere and heartbreaking. With 23 songs to show, this record from the Tragically Hip frontman is a solid goodbye record that never lets up on one front or the other. ![]() It was a hard day for the music community and Canada as a whole when legendary singer Gord Downie passed away this October, so the interest around his final album was reasonably high. ![]()
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