7/8

whenever one of these letters gets bounced back from someone's out of office autoresponder, which always makes me happy because it means the person is having a little break

the song "dancing in the moonlight" by king harvest, which has been my go-to "i need to have a little break" song this summer, for the chimey little electric piano figure that kicks things off, the trail to the verse built up by swishy hi-hat and a couple of anticipatory taps on the snare, for how the vocals in the verse are behind the beat, enacting casualness, and so pro forma lyrically ("they don't bark and they don't bite / they keep things loose and keep them alive"), just an excuse for communion, the supernatural delight of the stereo-panned high harmonies of the chorus which are the main attraction, the electric piano still plinking along underneath (