Dylan Henner perfectly mixes sonic elements to capture a different kind of adolescent headspace than in a typical rock or pop song on the blissful “I Used To See Her On The Way Home from School and She Lit Up The Sky with her Beauty.” The harp arpeggios and lightly distorted tones going from one end of the stereo field of sound to the other and the wordless vocals feel like that elevated state of emotional rapture that one associates with the kind of infatuation that you only really feel quite that same way when you’re young while your heart and mind are not as covered over by life experience and the corrosive effects of regular adult life often have on the human spirit. That purity of feeling Henner has conjured up and plugged directly into the composition of the song and for those five minutes and fifteen seconds you can feel a cleansing of the psyche the songwriter must have drawn from in putting together its angelic strands. Fans of Popol Vuh’s music for Aguirre, the Wrath of God in its unalloyed sense of wonder will find resonance with the piece as well. Listen to “I Used To See Her On The Way Home from School and She Lit Up The Sky with her Beauty” on YouTube and follow Dylan Henner at the links provided.
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