Did you feel like I do?
Bass!
The Hush Now - Hoping & Waiting.
It's not very often you hear a song in which the bass drives everything forward, propelling the song toward that last second. It's especially effective in Boston band the Hush Now's "Hoping & Waiting", because it starts with that plaintive organ, and you're thinking to yourself, ah, okay. This is some shoegazer shit, time to daydream out the bus window. But then! Then it all goes crazy, bass-wise, and it only gets crazier: that opera singing guy, the "Penny Lane" trumpet, the song hurtling to oblivion while that bass carries it all along. It's ridiculous and I love it.
This song is the first single from the Hush Now's new record Constellations, out soon. I actually grabbed this song as a free CD at All Asia in Central Square. It was sitting in a pile of promotional stuff, and I thought, why not? Sometimes, people, the system works. Long live the system.