Hey, I've been lately listening a lot to Silver Jews and there is a thing about their music I can't explain to myself, I'd like to know if you feel the same.
So, I noticed a few weeks ago that the more I listen to them, the more I want to listen to them. Then suddenly, I realized something different is happening with them. It's not that I want to, it's that I need it. Like if the feeling David is able to give and share with his words and voice opens this place in me, so intense, so sad and yet so true.
But do you feel it's possible to open that place without feeling deeply drowned by your own sensations?
For example, the words of Pet Politics are not so sad, neither is the melody, but why is this song so fucking intense?
These images, for example: "When the rain hits you / It hits you slow / Stitch after stitch" — they make me cry every time I listen to them.
I think, except in some rare poems or paintings, no one has had that skill to isolate so perfectly objects meeting each other, full of their loneliness. As if he was able to make everything alive with no lies.
So, are you able to listen to David Berman without him triggering in you this ocean of loneliness?