One of the many things I love about The Muster Point Project is its ability to celebrate the simple things in life. Even when they look at the passing of time, as with “This Town Has Changed,” they do so by nostalgically looking around their hometown. Similarly, the poignant and fleeting passage of life is embodied in something as simple as an “Old Black Suit,” once worn for painting the town red and now donned for funerals.
I guess I relate because there is something similar in the Canadian and British mindsets. Whereas an American writer might opt for exciting storylines and explosive narratives, our cooler and calmer minds are more prone to pointing at something and saying, “Huh, isn’t that interesting?” Understatement speaks volumes.
And so it is with “You Are My Breeze,” a gentle ode to the joys of cycling. As always, The Muster Point Project mixes gentle melodicism with soaring majesty, a weave of drifting slide guitar and cascading riffs, chiming piano, and the sort of energies—sometimes driving hard, gliding effortlessly—that really captures what cycling is all about.
Lyrically, the sense of freedom is palpable, and the descriptions of the scenery and sights rushing past, poetic. Never have I wanted to get the old bike out from the shed, pump the tires up, and take it for a spin through the backgrounds and country lanes of my neck of the woods more than when listening to this song. Maybe they should sell this to whatever organization promotes exercise, healthy living and cycling in Canada; the membership would double overnight.
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