Sunday, June 26, 2016

Kooks' "Seaside"

This afternoon I listened to the Kooks' Inside In/Inside Out.  I noticed something about the bridge of "Seaside" that should have been obvious.  The "away" in the line "But I find it hard to love you, girl, when you're far away" has a melisma (as does the single "away" after that line).  They're both sung to a Bb Bb Ab Gb Eb phrase, which helps to portray distance.