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Stone Cold Grace finds healing in "You In the Armchair"


Stone Cold Grace is one of the few to pause briefly, warmly, and welcome the effect of their new single, "You In the Armchair." it is a hushed exchange of words between past and present selves, a gorgeously layered meditation that pulls at the heart in unconventional ways. Stone Cold Grace may have begun this song many years ago, but its heartbeat is endless. This is music not just for today but for all the selves we take with us, those we have met, and those we have yet to meet.

Stone Cold Grace isn't hurrying to get anywhere with this song. Activity, vigor, momentum: None of that was required of us, who were being asked instead to sink into literally and figuratively that comfortable, broken-in armchair and to take a breath for a minute. The song sounds like the emotional equivalent of opening up an old photo album and realizing that all of those previous versions of yourself are still there, only quieter.

Like a kind of Marley's ghost, this sculptural piece is a palpable ghost precisely because the artist's hands have touched it at many disparate points in his lifetime. That drafting, redrafting, development, and reshaping is indelibly in the song's DNA. You hear it not only in the words but in the pauses, the textures, and the sense that this track was not hurried into the world. It was lived into.

"You In the Armchair" is a song in the music about the soft progress of somebody going and coming back upon their younger self, but not to judge or to fix, to sit beside them. It is smooth and cavernous, like sunlight filtering through a dusty window or the hush of memory rising when we are finally still enough to hear it. Whether you've weathered your waves of transformation or are just looking for a song that feels like a long exhale, "You In the Armchair" meets you where you are. 

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