Songs that sound like they are of our time. There really should a formal category for such things and, if there were, surely the five song s that make up “Melting, Sometimes Bleeding” by Night Swimming would be on it.
These five songs are not ones to make your heart beat faster with the enveloping atmosphere created by their playback seeming more like a chance to reflect on what might have happened last night or might happen tomorrow. Dancefloor elements occasionally creep into this soundtrack for the night people as do the ghostly apparitions of yesterday’s indie rock guitar moves with Meg Jones’s laconic, perhaps even mystical, voice completing that feeling of temporary disconnection from that which is considered today.
There is something timeless about “Melting, Sometimes Bleeding”. Night Swimming make the kind of music that obviates a need for a watch and that’s certainly worth many a minute of anybody’s time.
Vinyl and CD available from Bandcamp.