Some Cuts of the Day were handed over to students at the Pendleton Rock Camp, where WW’s Casey Jarman taught a crash-course in music journalism.

Kele Goodwin’s song, Cursive, holds an almost eerie sound, creating a feeling of unsettling anxiety through out his versus. His lyrics describe what the tune is hitting on, when he begins to discuss a letter that he has sent to someone which is returned to him. He goes on to tell about the stacks of letters still unsent and his inability to write a letter worthy of sending. The metaphors in his song seem to make his letter more than inanimate (arrived on my doorstep, a falling bird from the sky, lost in the snowstorm, returning home to die).

When the chorus comes in he begins to talk of how he wrote the letter with the winter’s afternoon and leaves of his favorite tree, saying a picture’s worth the thousands of words lying in stacks on his floor.

Though, his chorus softens the worries with the help of light bells in the background and an easier feeling in his vocals, which are carries into his lyrics, the song still ends with the versus distracting itch in the back of your mind.

—Jacki Penny

Download audio file (cursive.mp3)

Links:
Kele Goodwin on Myspace

Photo courtesy of KG’s ’space.