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A friend recommended this song to me, "The One To Wait" by CCFX, which the internet says is a "filmic dream pop collaboration" featuring members of the Olympia band Trans FX. I gave it a dutiful listen and am delighted to report that it is so good it's my song of the day.
It's perfect for those moments when you're feeling introspective, happily wistful, like you're deliciously dying of love and all such shoe-gazey emotions. The same friend has recommended that I check out the entire EP and I plan to.
This song has so many phases it's a quiet hero's journey. The melody starts spare, ghost-town lonesome, like you're walking slowly and kicking the dust. The last tumbleweed blows through the soundscape and the beat drops, tentative at first and then building. The synths jump in, optimistic, and now, though the highway may be deserted, you're in a car.
Just when you've decided the song's a really good instrumental, lead singer Mary Jane Dunphe comes in with an alto that occasionally, just occasionally, flirts with tenor. Though her voice is powerful—think Siouxsie Sioux, Bjork and Elizabeth Frazer of the Cocteau Twins—Dunphe keeps her delivery hushed. Is there a bit of Brian Eno-style reverb making it all sound so pretty and cohesive? The song continues with hypnotic repetition and variation of twining instruments. If this is a wall of sound, the wall is filigreed as the screen of a mosque or confessional.
Inevitably, "The One To Wait" drags the listener into dreamlike territory. It's a welcome place, nowadays.
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