My Fruit Psychobells... A Seed Combustible was one of the first CDs I ever got in the mail to review way back when, and remains my go-to album from Maudlin of the Well, in large part due to housing my favorite of the band's songs: "Undine and Underwater Flowers." This emotional track in particular really hit me hard on the very first listen, and has stuck with me ever since.
Driven largely by surprisingly weighty pulses of lush bass and a sparse guitar melody, the vocals barely sound like lyrics during the verses—an unusual delivery and arrangement fitting of the atypically poetic content:
The waves speak quietly to me when the tempest sleeps deep beneath. I wish that I could give to you the sun before it weds the west. My tears mingle soft with the sea, yet I dream that you could taste them...
The piece does begin to lose me a bit around five minutes in, when it morphs into all the jazzy noodling for the second half of the track (killer drumming, though); but those first five minutes are just flawless, hypnotic beauty. Impeccable.
