i’m usually not one to complain about this kind of thing but why the fuck isn’t this one of pitchfork’s 100 best tracks of 2014? i feel like there were very few songs this immediately impactful, with the same power to suck all the air out of the room on the first play, to make you wish you already knew the words so you could sing along. 36 plays on my itunes and i still don’t know whether harvey is a dog, a younger brother, an imaginary friend, but it doesn’t matter because ultimately he’s just an abstraction of whatever you feel the most love for and are most driven to protect. there’s something childish about it, as there is in a lot of alex g’s music; that meandering, loop-de-looping synth sounds like falling backwards into soft grass after spinning around in circles for no reason, watching the clouds move in and out of focus. i can’t think of anything else from this year so evocative, so celebratory and melancholy at the same time, and, above all else, so anthemic.
