If "Skeleton Is Walking" — the first single from Blake Mills's upcoming Jelly Road — was the ambling road song, then second taste "There Is No Now" is for the morning after a long day's ride; crawling from your tent into blooming dawn, surrounded by sky and dew-flecked cacti.
Like the rest of Jelly Road, "There Is No Now" was written alongside reclusive outsider artist Chris Weisman, and it finds Mills's voice sitting high and clear in the mix, circling the arrangement's many tiny moving parts. Woodwinds, piano, chimes, electronic sweeps and rolling percussion dance and bob between Mills's understated guitar plucks, and the whole thing is over in under two-and-a-half-minutes — like a little universe born, perfected and snuffed out.
(New Deal Records), (Verve)Like the rest of Jelly Road, "There Is No Now" was written alongside reclusive outsider artist Chris Weisman, and it finds Mills's voice sitting high and clear in the mix, circling the arrangement's many tiny moving parts. Woodwinds, piano, chimes, electronic sweeps and rolling percussion dance and bob between Mills's understated guitar plucks, and the whole thing is over in under two-and-a-half-minutes — like a little universe born, perfected and snuffed out.
