After discovering the earnest joy of Pete Droge's music, I found a used copy of the Beautiful Girls soundtrack just so I could play his song, Beautiful Girl, a hundred times. By the time I get to the second chorus, I get lost in this bittersweet feeling of nostalgia that I just want to inflict on myself over and over again. So I do. Last night, I discovered this one-off from a Pete Droge collaboration with Matthew Sweet and Shawn Mullins. In 2002 they recorded this sunshiny, CSN-inspired, album, The Thorns. Beautiful harmonies. This song, Runaway Feeling, is probably as good as anything on the record. Some of the tracks are buried in production and perhaps too many vocal harmonies. I prefer the leaner production of Droge's Necktie Second album. This lead track from The Thorns is stripped down and sweet. It's more Sweet than Droge. But sustainably sugary nonetheless. Great stuff to play while in the midst of a polar vortex.
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