Music Review // Chrome Harvest "NEED YOU"

 

Chrome Harvest begins "NEED YOU" with this slow and brooding pace.  It has these soft acoustics which can almost make it feel like it's barely there, but as the song goes it grows louder, more intense, until the big finale at the end.  Though this song does have a definitive chorus, it also does feel much like a song that starts at a certain point and just goes up from there, in terms of both being loud and gripping.

Though this song starts with the lines: "Quick as a fly / Free like an eagle / A moon setter", it also revisits them again before the end.   This is why I feel like this is less of a verse/chorus/verse type of song.  If there was a chorus to this song though, it would be with the title: "I needed you now / I feel the thrill now", which technically says "needed you" and not "need you", but the point remains.   

With the spatial awareness of artists such as Sleepy Gonzales and Flora Cash, Chrome Harvest finds a way to not only put this song into its own genre but also its own mood.  But, if you understand what this song is about lyrically and feel like it conveys that with the tone of music, then how do you describe that mood exactly?  "NEED YOU" is not just about needing someone, it's about that realization that you need them when it's too late.

While this idea can be experienced on many levels, I like to think of it as a child who has lost a parent.  A child who learned something from their parent, but didn't realize it until it was too late and so they couldn't share in this moment together.  What is that?  Longing?  Regret?  Sadness?  Emptiness?  It's such a mix of emotions that I'm not sure it can be summed up in one word.  And that is how this song will make you feel if you let it.