![]() His voice is often scratchy and his intonations desperate he's singing about loss as he's seemingly losing his voice, which makes the words hit twice as hard, especially on the swirling "Lost Your Name." Background screams pierce the somewhat quieter "Back of Your Head" which leads into the devastating "Tiny Raindrop," which as Simmons has said, is about wanting someone but realizing your limitations: "It's a vision of being with someone you are infatuated with but eventually letting them down. Throughout Missing, Simmons sounds fractured and vulnerable. It's almost immediately evident in opener "Parachutes," as the guitars uglily dance around each other, rising and falling seemingly on a dime as Jon Simmons sings I'm falling faster, so goes the distortion. Missing has a live-room feel, with a din permeating throughout nearly every moment like a pair of weary eyes. Living up to its title, there was a palpable distance ingrained into those songs you'd never know the band had three guitarists unless you checked the liner notes. Few bands convey the strange mishmash of emotions that cloud relationships better than Balance and Composure, and this is their best work yet.įirst of all, Missing is far louder, moodier and cloudier than B&C's excellent 2011 debut LP, Separation. You listened to this album loudly through headphones – probably while lying on your bedroom floor and staring at the ceiling – and for a time, experienced that weird sensation of simultaneous isolation and connection, like driving home with a friend or significant other, holding hands but never saying a word.įor many, The Things We Think We're Missing will be that album. To you, this album was a perfect allegory of an imperfect time, a time when you were wrong, misled, confused or disappointed, either by your own actions or the actions of others. If you're reading this, chances are good that at some point in your life, there was an album that completely consumed you. ![]()
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