Saturdays

Broken Bells

One of those under the radar collaborations that deserves more attention: the sublime vocals of James Mercer with studio genius Brian Burton, AKA Danger Mouse. I’ve already written about the DM collaboration with Sparklehorse on here, and so it’s wonderful to see singles dropping on Fridays from the forthcoming Broken Bells collab. The human voice can sure mean a lot to great pop music because it’s often where the emotion is. This tune is pop perfection with haunting lyrics and mood — a sad song about the “slow decline”. But somehow the past being remembered remains magical. I love hearing Mercer’s great vocals against this great music — it keeps the beautiful, trippy, electronic production human and emotional.

There is hardly a moment in my life
When I don't recognize the slow decline
It's a gift and maybe it's a curse
Don't know which is worse, hard to define

Yeah it's a long way down
From those Saturdays, just you and I

Used to think no one would ever care
Nothing was really there, guess I was fine
It was dark and lonely all the time
Kept me getting high 'til you were mine

So it's a long way down
From those Saturdays, just you and I
There's something about
Your absence I can't describe

In an empty house
The walls, they know
With an empty heart I'd face
The world to anyone that goes

In an empty house
The walls, they know
With an empty heart I'd face
The world to anyone that goes