♫♪  Loner Deluxe - “Holding Pattern”

There’s probably some poem about Winter lurking around in there, but seeing as it’s in the mid-60s here today, it’d be disingenuous to say “I feel you.” Loner Deluxe felt the chill, and wisely wrapped a concept about Winter around himself like a heating blanket. Transforming experience into concept creates distance from said experience. In song, it passes the buck to the listener, the burden or the joy.

Innocently, some heavy Cold War miscommunications travel between the hands of the creator and the ears of the listener. But what’s important to the creator is that they are “off the hook,” no longer in cuffs with the thing. And what’s important to the listener is that the steady seeping saturation of external stimuli continues to coat the ears. And, if that listener happens to be saying “hello” from Sunny California or Key Largo, then a chilly concept like Snowed Under and its close-to-the-radiator blanket-of-snow “Holding Pattern” serves as the Weather Channel does in those locales, by humoring a detached mild curiosity and inducing a sigh of relief that sounds something like “boy oh boy, am I glad I’m not there.” One can still sympathize though, supposedly. As the voice on the answering machine in “Holding Pattern” concludes, “Well, anyway, have a nice night. Good night.”

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