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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