Renny Conti’s “Valley Ford” is a caviar bump of sobering honesty; rife with statements of emotional indifference that dissect themselves upon admittance.
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Ford (noun): a shallow place in a river or stream that one can cross.
Ford (verb): to move by that aforementioned shallow physique of water.
To make use of the noun and verb collectively in a sentence – I ford a ford – is a self referential act.
No matter how clumsy “I ford a ford” could be as a string of phrases, its encumbrance doesn’t dwarf its interpretation: I cross, I’m crossing, I’m crossing myself.
To cross oneself is to query every part. And Renny Conti does simply this in “Valley Ford” – the observe up single to his eponymous document, Renny Conti, in addition to the primary of his releases by Mother+Pop.
I used to be within the yard
ready for a full moon
Nothing ever hurts
should you by no means let it contact you
Carry my, carry my,
carry my physique house
By no means want a repair
should you by no means have an issue
Dreaming of a vacation,
however my cash ran late
Manipulating time,
wishing I used to be in one other state
Carry my, carry my,
carry my physique house
Why am I afraid of
shedding those who I barely know
Conti is tentative and in search of, singing with the cadence of 1 on the precipice of a realization. Every line lands with a thud of recognition, the pauses in between stretching lengthy sufficient for listeners to register which means however not lengthy sufficient to take a seat in. There isn’t any time to dwell right here, we should hold transferring ahead.
The second line of the track, “Nothing ever hurts should you by no means let it contact you,” greatest captures the monitor’s ethos.
Conti sings from a doldrum; a state of being the place life acts upon him as a substitute of the reverse. “By no means want a repair should you by no means have an issue.” These remarks land not as self flagellative, however extra in order a matter of truth. With a vocal supply akin to that in his monitor, “Trying on the Geese” – wherein he shares that shrews are the smallest of mammals and that the world’s most costly camels are price 53 million {dollars} – Conti articulates the phrases in “Valley Ford” as truths innate to life.
Did I lie on, attempt on you?
Did I transfer on, transfer on by?
Will I get again to you?
The monitor is a gritty case examine of distance employed as a psychological protection measure. To say this stuff so plainly is to attract consideration to them, one should now tackle and dissect them. The very exclamation of those statements poses a problem to their legitimacy. Conti waves a crimson cape on the bull that’s his personal sense of apathy, bracing himself for the confrontation forward.
Itemizing off each lyric as if it’s an goal discipline statement and never one thing he’s personally contending with, it is just when Conti questions, “Did I lie on, attempt on you? / Did I transfer on, transfer on by?” within the final minute of the track that the reservoir bursts. The track erupts into an amalgamation of shoegazey-folk. Explosive snares and crashing symbols push the intertwining lap metal and guitar melody ahead, earlier than giving strategy to the quiet buzz of amp static.
Someplace in my reminiscence
we spent an evening alone
Awoke in California
staying in my dad and mom’ house
And out of Valley Ford
I couldn’t see a street forward of me
Water rising from the rеservoir
and transferring over every part
Did I lie on, attempt on you?
Did I transfer on, transfer on by?
Will I give again to you?
Sure, certainly – to ford is to cross; to endure. A resilient meditation on pointed indifference and the interior dissonance it sows, Renny Conti’s “Valley Ford” is as candid as it’s pensive and brooding. We’re catching Conti mid-motion, witnessing the contrail of searing honesty and tactful wit that he leaves in his wake.
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