A sound like a sitar opens “Comet” by Lost & Profound lending it an exotic quality before it drops out and Lisa Boudreau’s vocals come in with an intimate tone for quite an unorthodox breakup song. What might have been sitar reveals itself as potentially acoustic or electric guitar processed to give the bends a strange voicing. But which accompanies the vocals alongside low key percussion and a background pulse as though the words of the song are meditative and intentional rather than mournful. Our narrator uses the metaphor of being a river that can overflow for being a person of strong emotions while later in the song using the image of self as comet, fiery and headed to distant realms to the same effect. But the chorus “I’m a teardrop, watch me fall” that floats in the song in its most melancholic passages expresses the heartbreak and intense moment of regret that lingers but doesn’t last forever. Stylistically the song shifts from a more dream pop sound to a touch of country rock swagger mid-song when going into that bit about being a comet and the guitar is more expansive and crunchy and Boudreau’s vocals joined by backing vocals echoing her lines for the most anthemic moments of the song before the outro back into vulnerability and fadeout to some tasty backwards delay on the guitar to close out a chapter in a life story. Listen to “Comet” on Spotify.
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