Like most of these parks i come with a Metal Swing. My strong affection for a mere 1/11th of an album and (very) partially a review of a review-
Yeah, capital M and S. Yes, that song, by James Hinton of Providence, a.k.a The Range. Rather, how good is Metal Swing, the last track of well received 2013 album Nonfiction. It got "best new track" in Pitchforks review, where they called it a stand out track of the album, which simply couldnt be more true. It is miles ahead of any other song he made, not because the other pieces tend to be bad at all, Nonfiction is overall quite decent IMO, 2014 release Panasonic is O.K i guess, and he has clearly made a lot of progress since The Big Dip which i hadnt heard until recently. It has, admittedly, a quite substantial faint of amateurish insecurity to it. But Metal Swing plays at an elite level IYAM. I have listened to it probably a 1000+ times. The way it grows steadily better for every second that passes is truly remarkable, and despite it not being divided into particularly clear "parts" in the traditional sense, you feel a different sensation when you hear the introduction compared to when you hear the building stage and lastly the beautiful climax. It's impact on me surely has something to do with the voice sampled throughout the entire song.
Mike Powell of Pitchfork described the way Nonfiction behaves towards the listener very nicely. In an excerpt from the 8.2 review;
"Even if you listen to Nonfictionâand even if you like itâit probably wonât inspire you to call anyone up and say, â[Expletive], I just got back from the library, or the office, or picking up [friendâs name] at the airport, and I had this new Range album on at a reasonable volume the whole time, and it totally increased my general sense of well-being!â What it might inspire, though, is a kind of passive, slowly gestating admirationâthe kind usually best measured in iTunes plays three or four months down the line, the kind you tend to recognize several hours into a workday in front of your computer, the kind that doesnât surge like a fire but instead grows patiently, like a vine."
Amazing.













