Cold Hands Can’t Quite Express the Same as Warm Handsthen “cold hands are alone hands, and warm hands have a brighter outlook“ – declared Mentally Ill alias Shelby Obzut, „the only other person from muskegon besides iggy pop“.
Just thirteen days following that published on New Year’s Day The Death of Cupid appeared, feels the single Cold Hands Can’t Quite Express the Same as Warm Hands like a reverberation detached from the album concept to the album mothership, once more more archaic at the roots of Mentally Ill reveling.
The melodic guitar figures ensnare each other not far from Oli Knight, seem almost shy, feel their way forward curiously and playfully, improvising an atmosphere that has something of a dusty Blues Americana, as if Dylan Carlson were contemplatively brooding and delving into a pleasantly oscillating score. Above all in the subversive melancholy of the ephemeral, the Cold Hands Can’t Quite Express the Same as Warm Hands secretly evoked in its engaging mood lies the real strength of these seven and a half instrumental minutes, which seamlessly contribute to that Mentally Ill delivers the unexpected soundtrack for the bleak start to 2023.
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