| Its guitar part is frankly astonishing; it’s reminiscent of
the Durutti Column’s Vini Reilly, which is a pretty cool and
obscure thing to be reminiscent of. Most guitar parts rely heavily
on chords, but “Knives Out” skitters around like a seagull
with soft-colored paint on its feet, playing arpeggios and parts of
scales that outline what would be chords if the song weren’t
trying to make itself as light and airy as possible. The drums, too,
are remarkable for their restraint: they’re soft, whooshy jazz
drums, a constant pretty ride cymbal emphasizing the song’s bile
by making it known that they don’t even really want to get involved
if they can help it. The bass notes rise like bubbles through oil;
if this were an outtake from Joni Mitchell’s Mingus, which
it sort of could be if some malevolent God took hold of the universe
in its glass bubble and gave it a good shake or two, we’d shortly
be treated to a more delicious pain than the one we’re about
to get. |
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