fiction and creative non-fiction from Brennan Quenneville
"It's not the cold making my legs shake," sings Cody Bonnette at the outset of "Timothy", the final, grueling track from As Cities Burn's sophomore LP, Come Now Sleep. As the song unfolds it becomes clear that what's making the narrator's legs shake is, in fact, grief. Across its nearly 13-minute run time, "Timothy" explores [...]
"There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself." What is it that gives a song its sense of movement? How does a song move from beginning to end without becoming boring? The quote above, taken from - of all places - Herman Melville's Moby [...]
Songs & Stories 