Now we’re dreaming

• Masonic, “Way Gone By”

I like this one because although it starts out pretty straight – skating-rink organ, Beach Boys sighs in the background – the band seems to get bored, stops to take stock at around the 1:30 mark. They resume cautiously, stepping slow, and then at 2:06 some unseen pair of hands picks up the song and gives it a shake, and they all slide around and try to right themselves, the drummer coming down hard, the keyboardist and the guitar player rattled, the singer sitting down and dizzy but still singing.

It’s not crazy avant-garde or anything – it’s still very pretty & chirpy – but you know.

The album is Things I Am Guilty Of and I believe it officially comes out today. Band website here.