I don't know anything about the bedroom project called Swore Off except that "Moths" feels like one of those songs that would be used to propel a story. It is the kind of song that might appear in Netflix's "Dead to Me" after Jen (Christina Applegate) has had an exquisitely harrowing day of false hopes and deadly conclusions. As she steps out into the darkness with the only light illuminating her face coming from the swimming pool, "Moths" would play. I think we need a new descriptor for a song like this and cinematic doesn't cut it because it is not that grandiose. It is kind of simple, purely moving and feels organic in a sense. The poetry of the lyrics is beautifully metaphorical.
Maybe 'narrative pop' or maybe 'episodic pop' would do (?).
-Robb Donker Curtius
oh little moth, why have you come?
to shade the walls and hide from the sun?
take my eyes away from focus
long enough to lose myself in your dance
flutter by into the ceiling sky above the earth
October trees, why must you leave?
strip yourself away until the new year
can't you stay in front of the light
so I can see you through my window before
nighttime falls and all that I'm left with is darkness
flashlights call the moths to dance for me and I am
free
Swore Off
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Bedroom pop project from Southern California.
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