Ben Chatwin, "Inflexion"
What’s your day going to be like?
Ben Chatwin’s The Sleeper Awakes was one of my favorite albums of 2015. His new one, Heat & Entropy, is out next month and it is just as good, if not better. This track may be an ominous way to start your morning, but is your day really going to turn out to be rainbows and hugs? I mean, maybe it is. Maybe your Google calendar has a special spot marked “rainbows & hugs” sometime after lunch. I guess I should stop assuming everyone else’s life is as grim and hopeless as mine. Maybe you’re all getting rainbows and hugs after lunch and you just decided not to tell me because you think I’m a drag and I’ll ruin your big rainbow and hug party, is that it? That’s it, isn’t it? Look, I’m sorry I can’t be as cheerful as everyone else. This is the way God made me. If my debilitating sadness is so painful for you to be around that you need to ostracize me and laugh about it at your rainbow and hug convention I guess I will just sit here hopelessly and listen to my music by myself. Enjoy all your rainbows and hugs. I bet they’re really nice.