AMERICAN PANCAKE: Girl Time and the beautiful falling dream escape of "Safe"

"What’d I miss? I’m safe / I don’t think I wanna behave / What a miss, mistake / A little dip back into it / I won’t sound alarms again / I never meant, I never meant...."

There is something about "Safe" by brother / sister duo Girl Time that feels like a light night phone call from someone you care about. Those late night calls that find you talking for what can feel like to short and too long at the same time, the ones that you might even fall asleep to. It might be the nice mid-range eq to the vocals and what might feel like grit or distortion too. It is also the emotional sweep of the vocal countenance, the fall and cadence of the patter that might be asking questions not meant to be answered semi soaked in a mild depression.

The music also has a beautiful sweeping sound, drones of dreamy bedroom pop sounds with guitar notes that have a twang in between 80's rockabilly guitars and 90's surf punk while a plaintive circular synth pattern pushes forward or maybe backwards too. I mean, there is a nostalgic sense here, sweet embers of emo pop around camp fires or sing-a-longs at crowded house parties.

lovely stuff, dreamy revelations in repose...

-Robb Donker Curtius