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Writer's Block
Just Jack
Overtones
2005

I have a thing for British rappers/electronica artists.  The Streets, Dizzie Rascal, Jamie T, Just Jack.  I think part of it has to do with the fact that I love how their accents come through when they sing.  I first heard this song on an NME Essential Bands of 2005 double disc compilation that I had bought when I was in London.  I was home from Europe, recovered after that bout with mono and I was organizing my closet.  I was standing on a kitchen chair trying to shove things on the top shelf when I just stopped what I was doing and just listened to this song.  I had to extricate myself from the mess that was my closet so I could locate the CD's jewel case and find out who was singing.

I know the lyrics and rhymes are really simple, and kind of obvious, but I REALLY relate to this song.  Writer's block?  Yes, I get it.  I especially love:

In my own head consumed, I sit back in my room,
It's like the tapestries of life get tangled in the loom,
I'm like a butterfly, caught in a hurricane,
My pulse is quickening as my heart plays a new refrain

I love how the image of the loom is kind of juxtaposed with the sound of that harp at the beginning.  I adore that harp.  AND the strings, the steady heartbeat that pulses throughout the song, the Spanish? guitar, the bass, the background vocalist that joins him on the chorus.  I like the kind of monotone quality of his voice.  I love the "aw shits" he mumbles (which, I think I only noticed now avec les headphones).  I think his tone connects to the theme of the song...the tedium related to the everyday, kind of unremarkable, aspects of life .  I love:  Should really go and make a coffee, but I can't be arsed because it sort of reflects how I feel most of the time, haha.  But despite the fact that his voice is relatively expressionless, this song squeezes my heart a little.

J'aime aussi:

Sometimes at night I think too much,
About life and love and music and stuff
There's something about a person talking in a song that is also quite enjoyable...makes me think of "Little Fluffy Clouds" or "Ketsarku Mozgalom".  There's something kind of awkward and endearing about it.  With the headphones I just noticed that the talking woman sighs after she says that she "had breakfast".  It's just, that sigh, I get it.

This song is mornings and rainy days.