One listen.

This is a song I’d describe as being highly emotive, and it is. I tried to get some of that out but I feel I was unwilling to go far enough.

Quruli’s (くるり) “Army” is from The World is Mine.

I hope you enjoy.

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Guitar stepping forward to a steady, spaced, beat. Looped, it seems. Another joins as a counter-step of sorts and adds more drama. The percussion picks up, more guitar joins, and a soft beep in the background. The beep gives way to vocals that drift, float along with everything.

A sound rises in a vocal pause, then the voice comes back for a moment, but becomes so much more of a sound. There’s a journey here, and a weight. A sadness of sorts.

As the sounds proceed they move to more downbeat melodies, and seem to be looking to pull something full and expansive from where they’re going. They go on with their steady slowness, interweave, create tapestry. They tell a tale that continues ever onward.

A point where the percussion picks up and many of the other sounds pull away. They then start building again into a brief pause that brings everything back to where it was. Form and shape grows within it all as everything keeps moving forward. A coldness is here, but so is a warmth. The sadness remains, as does the attention to what sound is doing, and atmosphere spreads thick. It keeps spreading as the sounds settle into insects, a car passing by and a voice before the song ends.