Music Review // Cardinal Black "Take Me to the Water"
When "Take Me to the Water" first begins there is this immediate sound of mellow rock that feels familiar but isn't. The way Cardinal Black can take this from a dreamy, slow groove into the blues reminds me of something that a band like Dishwalla would have done in the late 1990's or also like that time when Rob Thomas teamed up with Santana. There is just a very distinct vibe of this being not quite a ballad but close to it and that really came through most for me in the late 1990's, though there are also modern elements as well. Lyrically this song is interesting because it doesn't seem to be about going to the water so much as surviving it. There is a line which says "Oh, can you stop my going under? Drowning in the water, washing me away" and it feels like you wouldn't want to take someone to the water if they're going to drown. But when this song begins it has lines like "Been feeling low for a while / Seems like I can...
