If some songs look to the future and talk about where we are going and what life might have in store for us, Sire’s latest single, Small Town, is very much a song about the past. And whilst it might be about Siren frontman and songwriter Rob Phillips’s recollections of his carefree, small-town formative years, it describes a scenario and feeling, a time and a place that most of us can relate to.
Although often found kicking out the jams, Siren being a natural foot-on-the-monitor rock and roll experience, here, they opt for a more considered approach. The result is a poised, spacious, mid-paced piece, the perfect platform to express such youthful exuberance and sonically capture those days of innocence.
We grow up way too quickly, and childhood should be savoured, even if we are often all too anxious to join the real world. It is a time in our lives that can’t be returned to, and no matter how great a photograph, a recollection, or a song is at taking us back to such times, that world fades away once more once the album is closed, the memory fades, or the last notes of the song drift off on the breeze.
Childhood…it’s wasted on the young!
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