touching voids – untied

“Untied” provides probably the closest musical equivalent to my constant feeling of nigh-on-endless ambivalence, post-University. I mean, this has an edge of pretension, gilded with what could be a shoegaze-impressario’s take on the break-up song, yet it still attacks me on a gut-level. Being a project from a former Smith Westerns live member, whose second record felt particularly poignant for the carefree start of my degree, makes this all the more fitting.

It’s the chorus, the debilitating proof-in-the-pudding, that hooks me again and again:

“It’s fine, there’s nothing you’re close to
I’ve been untied, entirely with you
And I’m no more”