“To Have In The Home” - Woods
As I was giving one of my friends a tour of the Detroit suburb/island I sometimes call home, she said something I knew but couldn’t quite articulate: “Wow, this is so desolate and industrial, I feel like I’m in Gotham.” I don’t know if things here are quite that bad, but something about Detroit, and particularly the suburbs south of the city, this time of year, when every day seems grey and dead, and the void hasn’t yet been filled by snow, makes me reach for the sunniest songs at hand. Woods are perfect because even their summery jams are tinged with an abstract longing for something else.
