Even Our Shadows Are Blue

Zoee “No Great Endings”

“No Great Endings” is a fairly straightforward song that feels a bit bent and warped by the strange gravity of Zoee’s voice, which sounds something like a depressed faerie. You mainly hear this in a keyboard part that seems to wobble like jello at some points and in others more like a crude caricature of a harp. But it’s there in the rest of the arrangement too, which moves with a solid groove but projects a dazed and detached vibe. The lyrics are full of poetic descriptions in the verses, but chorus is quite plain and direct: “Where to put this pain? / It’s always the same.” The emphasis on pragmatism is interesting – she doesn’t sound like she wants bury it or deny the feeling, but is jaded enough to half-expect more is on the way. It’s less like an expression of denial and more like imagining a plan to carefully catalog it all in some kind of emotional library.

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