Blog: music (for robots)

Bass! The Hush Now - Hoping and Waiting. It's not very often you hear a song in which the bass drives everything forward, propelling the song toward that last second. It's especially effective in Boston band the Hush Now's "Hoping and Waiting", because it starts with that plaintive organ, and you're thinking to yourself, ah, okay. This is some shoegazer shit, time to daydream out the bus window. But then! Then it all goes crazy, bass-wise, and it only gets crazier: that opera singing guy, the "Penny Lane" trumpet, the song hurtling to oblivion while that bass carries it all...

• The Hush Now - Hoping and Waiting