Brayden Bell – Jubilee

Wohooo, ada mandolin di Jubilee.

Mandolin itu, juga gitar elektriknya, dimainkan Benjamin Longman dengan tenaga yang sengaja dijaga rendah. Perkusi Matt Frank tak banyak bicara, hanya mengetuk seperlunya. Di bawah keduanya, petikan gitar akustik dan vokal Brayden Bell yang tenang berjalan tanpa terburu-buru, lalu lapisan vokal dan instrumen menebal perlahan, seperti adonan yang dibiarkan mengembang, sebelum surut dan menyisakan gitar akustik sendirian.

Jubilee jadi single kedua dari Gardener, EP yang sebentar lagi menetas. Sekitar dua tahun lalu, lewat Box Office Bomb, Brayden Bell sudah menunjukkan sikap optimis soal hidup yang tampak gagal tapi tetap layak diceritakan. Sikap itu belum luntur, dan kita boleh lega.

Menjelang akhir, frasa “it just means love” diulang lima kali berturut-turut. Biasanya frasa yang diulang sebanyak itu bikin bosan (sudah, mas, kami paham), tapi ia berhasil membuat kita ikut menghitung sambil senyum. Ada optimisme yang keras kepala di lagu ini.

Kalau Gardener nanti sekeras kepala Jubilee, kami siap menunggu, mas Brayden!

Lirik Lagu Brayden Bell – Jubilee

Like some young prodigy
Hold up like a honey bee
We were always told that everything could be all ours
Back to the black hole now
It might suck us in, it might spit us out
Singularity has always loved a crowd

So don’t give up on us
On this old Jubilee
You said
It’s still beautiful to me
And when the lights went out
And it got hard to see
You said
It’s still beautiful to me (still beautiful)

Were we supposed to see
different realities
Sometimes it opens just enough to peak right in
Empty spaces, in-between
Just trying to find your frequency
Let our hope win out
Just because it can

So don’t give up on us
On this old Jubilee
You said
It’s still beautiful to me
And when the lights went out
And it got hard to see
You said
still..

It’s just a hunch
But that’s enough
We’ve been drowning in fear
But we don’t need to end it here
It’s just a hunch
But that’s enough
It don’t mean pain
It just means love

It just means love
It just means love
It just means love
It just means love

So don’t give up on us
On this old Jubilee
You said
It’s still beautiful to me
And when the lights went out
And it got hard to see
You said
It’s still beautiful to me
It’s still beautiful to me
It’s still beautiful

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Petikan dawai akustik yang tulus dan penulisan lirik kontemplatif senada mengalir dalam ulasan KAYTIE – Miss Innocent serta arsip ulasan Maya Allaire – Forbidden Fire.