Tag: “Two Days” (No Room No Sweetener song)

With what sounds like an echoing Rhodes piano hitting two simple, lingering chords, the sparest of percussion, nearly whispered vocals and saxophone, “Two Days” by No Room No Sweetener uses simple elements to craft a downtempo track that sounds like late night or early morning contemplation. In this case of regret over a relationship that is recently no more. The singer lists the things he misses and asks himself what he’s done to make all of the good things about the relationship go away, his thoughts lingering on all the things that remind him of his former beloved. The sounds work as a spacious composition alone but together they have an unusual effect of weighing on your mind in subtle ways just like the mood from which the song is written. The piano ringing out drifts about as a constant presence haunting all the open spaces of the song where even the saxophone doesn’t hang about, where the percussion and even the vocals step out of immediate hearing even if for a few moments overall. And that makes that sound a metaphor for the post-relationship blues that can put you in a wistful funk unbidden, almost beyond your control and a feeling most people recognize even if they don’t spend a lot of time analyzing that mood, they just live through it. No Room No Sweetener articulated that frame of mind perfectly in the song. Listen to “Two Days” on Spotify.