I’ll Be Your Candle

Men I Trust “Numb”

“Numb” has a warm, comfortable feeling but a lightly melancholy vibe, like being stuck in an easy, pleasurable situation. The smooth chords and gentle groove frame a soft, low-key vocal melody sung by Emma Proulx that conveys a lot of nagging guilt – most of the lines she sings are apologetic, but it doesn’t even seem like she’s done much of anything wrong. She mostly just sounds like she’s scared of upsetting a precarious balance, and wrecking a very delicate situation. The mood of the song may suggest a dubious comfort zone, but she surely does not want to leave it.

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