The creepy guitar squiggle at the beginning of “I Won’t Let You Die Young” finds Bad Flamingo employing another effective method in complementing its imaginative songwriting. Throughout the song that sound like if a sleepy frog was an instrument isn’t overused, it just serves to let the ghostly other guitar work shimmer out more vividly and the melancholic vocals to glider over the song even though they sound particularly intimate with the sound of a toy xylophone struck to add a nice touch of delicacy for a song about mortality and feeling that so acutely and wishing a long life for a loved one. The way the twin vocals harmonize captures a vulnerability that’s palpable and sounds like it comes from a place of knowing too well and too often what it’s like to lose important people in your life too soon and yes entirely too young and the ache that can revisit you suddenly and put you in a place where you feel it all over again. It could be a bummer but there’s something reassuring about remembering that connection and the immediacy and unguarded moments that feel like life shared in the present tense. Listen to “I Won’t Let You Die Young” on Spotify and follow Bad Flamingo at the links below.
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