On Repeat: Lamb's Wool by Foster the People
- Killjoy Reviews
- Sep 23, 2020
- 1 min read
By Dylan Shulman
The second solo single to be released from Foster the People in 2020 follows, in Mark Foster's words, "a conversation between me [Foster], my uncle, and god." Foster's uncle recently passed away, and this songs speaks upon the universal experience of losing a loved one. In a year as rough as 2020, this is an emotionally potent song that plucks a heartstring every time you hear it. For me, it's one of those songs that I hear for the first time and go "that's good songwriting" and then I play it On Repeat, over and over. The instrumental is really just phenomenal. The chord progression is rhythmically and harmonically complex but saturated with feeling. The melody works together with these chords, not against, while the lyrics are a perfect summation of loving someone who is dying, and the pain that comes with that. It straddles the fence between maximalism and minimalism, putting just enough in the right places.
I really do think this is a beautiful song, elegant during the intro, outro and everywhere in-between. In the depths of loss, Foster the People finds vision.
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