“The Heart’s Knot” is difficult to describe in simple terms without evoking the wrong image in people’s minds. To start with, it is a purely instrumental track, but don’t think of the usual cinematic scores or filmic music, though it would be perfect for the right project. It’s indie-pop-ish but miles away from what most people’s idea of indie-pop might be. It also plays around with hypnotic hip-hop grooves and understated dance beats, glitchy experimentation and anthemic, soul-infused, brass-driven highs and plenty of other sounds and styles which have no business hanging around together.
Now, reading that back, I’m not sure what that will bring to mind in the reader’s imagination, but I bet they will still be wide of the mark. It’s best if you just give the track a spin. Do that, and you will find something special, something made of familiar moves and recognisable grooves, but which sort of scrambles them before putting them back together in unexpected ways, not unlike a musical anagram but one which still makes perfect sense.
And like all instrumental tracks, without lyrics to take you by the hand and draw you to the artist’s intended conclusion, it is up to the listener to take from the sonic story what they want. In its creative and intricate coils, it is easy to find feelings of melancholy yet also hope, pathos, and playfulness, as well as mindfulness and heartache—all things to all people.
If you drew me a musical map, I’m not sure where I would point to as the song’s home, as it seems too clever to fit anywhere and too familiar not to appear everywhere. I suspect that KB-s moves faster than the musical cartographer anyway, and by the time his name has been written down in one genre or location, he will have moved on, being found far from the coordinates you were given.
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