New Perspectives That Feel Good

Brijean “Softened Thoughts”

The bass in “Softened Thoughts” feels heavy, strong, and thick, a stark contrast with the soft, hazy feel of everything else in the arrangement. It’s like a powerful current at the center of the track and every other sound just flows along with it, and the entire point both musically and lyrically is the pleasure of letting go and moving where it wants to take you. Brijean Murphy sings with a serene but confident vocal tone, sounding a bit like a much less melancholic version of Beach House’s Victoria Legrand. Her words are very romantic and addressed to someone else, but even as the “you” becomes a “we” near the end of the song, the focus is very much on her experience in the moment. She’s “finding new perspectives that feel good,” and that includes taking in everyone and everything around her, but the main point of the song seems clearly stated when she sings “my mind feels renewed.”

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