We could be lazy without conditions
This song has been rattling around in my brain all morning, through an endless commute that involved rain, a couple of faulty subway cars, and too much wind for one umbrella.
Anders Ponders - Slowest Motion Miracle.
"Slowest Motion Miracle" is on the new Anders Ponders record Nodes Of Overtones, and it got me through my morning. That's Ponders on viola and just about everything else, playing up a storm while singing in a quiet voice. It's all very Sufjanian and Andrew Birdian, but it's also just a good song with an interesting arrangement and a pretty melody. Ponders - whose real name is Anders Mattson - strikes me as one of those musicians and composers who, like Sufjan, I will never understand. That is to say: how do they do that? I'm a musician, but usually I'm just a guy with an acoustic guitar. This thing's like a little symphony, with an internal order that I could never construct. I'm jealous, and I'm enjoying the hell out of Nodes Of Overtones.
You can find the record on most digital outlets.
And hey - Ponders is based in Minneapolis, and you can see him open for Mates of State at the University of Minnesota's awesome Weisman Museum on Dec. 12, for an event that includes food, drinks, and a "video game lounge". I'm missing the Twin Cities more and more these days.