One listen for this one.

I feel as though there was a duality to the song and I think that came through in what I wrote. I was mostly aiming to just capture a sense of what was happening and I think I did well there. A bit rough in places but overall I think this gives a decent idea of the song.

I think if I listened more than once I could’ve fleshed out details about the vocals and some other things. Didn’t want to go for a second listen, however.

These New Puritans’ “A-R-P” is from Inside The Rose.

I hope you enjoy.

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A synth arpeggiating in a silence and soon it is built on by another. A beat strikes out with a thick harshness. Disappears. Then strikes again. A slight melodic flow hidden within. Keys play and strings draw out from the keys. They draw long and the arpeggiating continues, as does the beat. The keys and strings shift note, shift back, shift again, shift back.

The beat disappears and a new note comes in. Vocals rise up and over, and seem to float on through it all. The beat returns for a moment and the vocals continue to move on through this full emptiness. All continues moving on and the vocals seem disconnected in a way. “I see You” as they seem to stretch before a new motion in sound begins.

Delicate are the notes here as the melody becomes more apparent, but the sounds are more gentle. Less rushed in a sense. Fragile. Delicate. Still as they move through the lens of the passing of time. Something seems to rush and it’s a return to the main melody.

All seems to rush again whilst the vocals go slow, but there is more of a stillness. There is a pensiveness, or at least a sense of pensiveness. The beat returns, but in a differing form. There’s still a strike but there’s a flickering, a fluttering. Distance and closeness and the space remains, and the vocals start to echo out, moving away, and on the last notes – on the last “I See You” sounding as emotionally withdrawn as it does heavily emotional the beat continues on, as do the strings, striking out steady and drawing long until they stop and the song ends.