Saucer Track Review

Saucer – 5:58

Available on the _DbR_ Jukebox

“I remember every word…
every minute…
every day…”

_DbR_ welcomes old friends Saucer… With seering highs and devastating lows their songs tore clean through the be-quiffed, gold larme arrogance of the early-00s era. In their short lifetime they wrote enormous songs that carried more weight in substance than many of their out-spoken peers. Verse-Chorus-Verse-Repeat-to-fade they were not.

This song constantly sounds on edge. Like walking on broken glass, you never quite relax through the whole crushing five minutes and fifty eight seconds…

Jack Straker’s vocal, backed with, what i can only assume, is the voice of his lost love, echoes a sorry tale of a deep, maybe unrequited love. Don’t fall into the trap of thinking the song is sad though, it’s not depressing. Far from it – Like looking back through a photo album of happier times it has a resonance and romance that is, so often, uplifting.

You would need to have rhino hide for this song not to touch you in some way, on some level. The delicate, clumsy guitar is naked in the mix and sounds like ice cracking under foot – the drums and bass receive no ‘treatment’ either, leaving them exposed as if you could reach out and touch them.

A beautiful song that manages to capture girly-teenage feelings I didn’t know I still had.

Rob Che