Hey Jack
Always look forward to your stuff.
My favourite aspect of this is the lyrics. Little pictures painted that sum up a whole life... you can really imagine the backstory of the protagonist, without you having to lay it on with a trowel. Very clever and delicately done.
Musically for me it's not my fave of yours, for similar reasons to Jambrains and the Viscount, I found it a little repetitive and didn't feel it got free of its leash like some of your other sparkling creations, but as you've said that was a conscious decision. And that does lend it more poignancy I guess, whereas a big pop hook might have cheapened the effect. So it's an album track not a single for me, but very accomplished none the less.
