Songs For Your Day

I’ve been in an M. Ward binge for a few months now.  Hold Time came out in mid-February and I loved it to the verge of obnoxiousness. I made people at work listen to it incessantly. On drives in the city I held my boyfriend’s ipod hostage with it. It was all I heard. 

It wasn’t long before I got the gumption to also get Post -War.  When I was driving home from work one night the second track cued and gripped me. “To Go Home” is a song that climbs in to your space like a neighbor through your window. It sounds like celebration. It helped that it was March in Atlanta, and despite the slight remnants of winter in the air, it was not ridiculous to roll down my windows and drive a little faster than usual. It’s not a road-trip song like “More than a feelin’” is, or even “Don’t Stop Believing,” It’s missing the gregarious guitar solos and vibrato vocalist stylings. But Ward’s message of utter bliss is something that stirs the soul with a similar sentiment, “God it’s great to be alive, it takes the skin right of my hide, to think I’ll have to give it all up someday.” And in the choruses when innocent female voices chime in with his charred smokey voice, you feel like the whole world is singing along with you.

-laura celeste