One listen for this one, though I stopped it twice through just to sort of get what I was writing down. Not quite in the spirit of the exercise, but anyway…

I think I spent too much time here trying to describe the song. It’s suggestive and I could’ve drawn a lot from that, but I didn’t draw enough. Still, I think what I wrote is okay.

These New Puritans’ “The Way I Do” (also known as “This Guy’s In Love With You” for specific reasons) is from Field of Reeds.

I hope you enjoy.

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Keys rock back and forth, and they are gentle. They seem to move in a simple motion, and they have sound stretch out from underneath them. The sound stretches and connects, and from it various scenes as though memory rise. Voices and slight wisps of other instrumentation are there, and it seems to be a fond looking back, or a fond imagining.

Suddenly it all stops, though it smoothly transitions into a series of other sounds that feel small in a way, and textured and congealing. They seem to be a mass and growing whilst remaining small.

The rocking back and forth returns, as do those other sounds and the voices, and now bass gently pushes firmly. Then it changes shape and seems to murmur and lurk, and drag for a moment. It seems to pause and think, perhaps, and brass comes in and calls loud and takes precedence as everything gathers around, and it keeps calling out, perhaps joyfully, and then it and everything else stops, and the song ends.