It’s a shame Meadowview’s EP, Like We Used To, came out in late fall. This is summer music
I’m quick to classify the group’s sound as driving music. Windows down, contemplatively carefree, search the horizon music. The last stretch to the coast on Highway 210 music.
Sure there may be some heartbreak about. Some unanswered questions. where did it go wrong
At least that’s how the EP’s first two songs set up Meadowville. They sound eponymous to the band name. “You Don’t Know” is an attempt at escapism with a melodic hook. “It’s days like this I start to reminisce...I think about what I could have missed,” opines lead singer Rob Shoemaker while engulfed in his own guitar chords.
But then there’s a heel turn. “No Strings” digs in. We have turned the car around. We are returning to a woman who left us wanting, no, needing a week in the sand to get a total body sunburn to mask our inner thoughts with actual physical pain.
And as if right on queue, the short play closes out at the right tone. We’ve worked through every stage of coping. Michael Donohue (drums) and Kyle Spidel (bass) lead the way as Shoemaker punctuates every declaration with an appropriate riff on “Fine Line.”
Are we in a good place? I don’t know. But it feels like it.
And I’m definitely wrong about that whole summer thing. It’s a cold world.
Check out Meadowview Like We Used To
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