Loss, in pop music, gets treated two ways: wallowed in until it curdles into self-pity, or so heavily varnished with hope that the wound never gets shown at all. Starboard to Sunset, a Jersey Shore outfit steered by singer-songwriter Tom Damiano, split the difference with a maturity that belies how straightforwardly the song is built.
Loss, in pop music, gets treated two ways: wallowed in until it curdles into self-pity, or so heavily varnished with hope that the wound never gets shown at all.
Starboard to Sunset, a Jersey Shore outfit steered by singer-songwriter Tom Damiano, split the difference with a maturity that belies how straightforwardly the song is built.
"Without You Here" doesn't dress up loss as triumph, nor does it drown in it.
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Loss, in pop music, gets treated two ways: wallowed in until it curdles into self-pity, or so heavily varnished with hope that the wound never gets shown at all. Starboard to Sunset, a Jersey Shore outfit steered by singer-songwriter Tom Damiano, split the difference with a maturity that belies how straightforwardly the song is built. "Without You Here" doesn't dress up loss as triumph, nor does it drown in it.
It simply sits with the ache, and trusts the listener to recognise it.
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