I Tried To Catch Them

Sugar Candy Mountain “Impression”

I’ve been doing this site for a very long time now and have written about thousands of songs and I think in a lot of cases my daily challenge is figuring out what to say about songs without just being like “this sounds nice, the bass part makes me feel good.” And the thing is, a lot of experience with music is just that – sounds nice, feels good. “Impression” is absolutely one of those songs where the sensation of it is the whole point, and trying to get deep into what I like about the chords and tones and melodies feels like going into detail on why a meadow full of flowers looks pretty on a sunny day. Sometimes the point of beautiful things is that you don’t have to think about it at all. The band’s choice to bury the lead vocals a bit so that the lyrics are barely discernible makes me think they’re not trying to get in the way of the sensations here – some words pop out, but mostly it just sounds like syllables for a melody.

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