First off, if anyone knows if other Evens songs sound as good as this, please let me know. If so, I'm-a gonna have to go CD shopping.

This song is so effortlessly cool. From it's very first second, it seems like the listener is being invited into an impromptu practice session: there's someone announcing the date, there's a rumble of thunder, and then, the jangly, loose guitar chords bleed us in as an intro. By the time the kit starts asserting itself, though, the song fully gels, and you know that they're doing more than practicing. This is a tight bit of cool. The song has an amazing plotting, even if everything sounds accidental and loose. It's at the same time rigid...and fluid. It has to take a great amount of talent, and quite a decent amount of camaraderie to pull that off. Add to that an excellently airy outro, and you've got a very charming three minutes. It's irrefutable madness.

The lyrics have a world-weariness to them that also fits the chaos. The song is a tale of alienation amidst a world that should be familiar. And the singer's delivery is at times growling and at other times shaky and disruptive. And at one point, he even sounds like Paul McCartney. And I can't quite tell, but it appears that at different times, different people appear to be doing different backing vocals. That's pretty cool.

With all of this confusion, how does the song not completely fall apart? I can't put my finger on it. It certainly doesn't have a life as a dancefloor anthem. But it will make me happy to hear it, whenever it shows up in a mix, for many years to come.

Please note: The Third Annual AC1 week is coming. Though It should be a whole freakin' month. I'm soooo far behind.