One listen.

This could be better. I feel like I was trying to write a review where I was trying to discern what the song is about, and I don’t think that worked here as I didn’t really go anywhere.

Underworld’s “Molehill” is from their project, DRIFT, and is included on DRIFT Episode 2: ATOM and DRIFT Series 1 – Complete.

I hope you enjoy.

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Gentle and grandiose; waking up to something as the vocals rise up with all the instrumentation. They roll and flow and express the wide openness of possibility, and seem to soar slowly.

It’s a calm before action, in a sense. It’s harmonious expression and the building of drama in a stationary form, and maybe it’s a bit less than that. The sounds don’t change, but they follow melody fine; they follow what they themselves are creating, and maybe it’s all humble.

It’s possible that this is all more in line with imagination, and it’s imagining all that is underneath. It’s wondering what happens below. It’s nice and calm, in a sense, but it does have that budding energy.

As small as it is, it is large. It continues to explore, or reaffirm, or pull back, and it asks questions as much as it doesn’t.

Eventually most grows quiet and reveals guitar, or at least stringed sounds playing with a fragile playfulness. The vocals sit in a distance, almost as though they are in a large room nearby. They are clear, but still seem to drift as something indistinct.

Sound returns and holds on a form, and all flows as a lullaby, and moves toward a great release, but it never happens. The sounds pull back once more, a final vocal line comes out and those strings are left to fade away as the song ends.