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Point Juncture, WA, “Happy Ending”
“I’ll be your happy ending,” singer Amanda Spring sings, fresh and clean and wet like raindrops–her voice caught, crushed and muffled upon the refrain. The instruments are similarly bipolar–glowing bright and pretty before falling into foggy distortion.
I drove through Arizona one August. I expected crushing heat, but instead found the flat highways slicing through the desert drowning under incessant rain. This song sounds like that road trip to me. The bold gray expanse of sky above was both the infinite universe and an erratic, stifling and heavy weight. “Happy Ending” has a that same simultaneous sense of possibility and claustrophobia.
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