There was a song that I love from way back when, “All The Things She Gave Me,” by The Waterboys, a brilliant piece with the theme of burning a box of trinkets and keepsakes, all those things that the singer was given by someone who they had recently broken up with. An exorcism of memories as a way of drawing a line under a failed relationship, a ritual sacrifice so that they can move on.
“Bonfire,” the new one from Empty Pinata,” is the same story told for a more modern audience, only flipped on its head. In this instance, the narrator is not the person with the match, but the person watching his belongings go up in flames.
Combining a DIY, bedroom music vibe with pop accessibility, digitally induced sonics with an understated indie cool, “Bonfire” is one of those songs that gently captures you, a smooth and seductive vibe that you seem to take on board merely through a sort of sonic osmosis rather than via any imposition on the part of the song.
It is also a very personal song, but given its theme, it is one that we can all relate to, whether we have actually and physically, or only spiritually and metaphorically, set fire to the past in such a way.
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