If Florence + The Machine's 'Mermaids' reflects the voice of experience, Hemlocke Springs' 'enknee1' is very much the voice of innocence. Like 'Mermaids', it's a song that it's possible to take multiple feelings and meanings away from, and both are songs that get better with each listen.
The going... going... GONE! EP is my record of the year and 'enknee1' really is the sweet, dreamy heart of that EP. It's the combination of ease, charm and heartfelt emotion that makes it such a beautiful song.
As I wrote in October when I was reviewing the EP, it would be easy to write the song off as a slice of charming childlike whimsy, but the initially disarming chorus increasingly drives the song, giving it a power beyond its initial beginnings. There's a real sense of the narrater feeling bewildered with the world, of not having got it figured out yet, and of wanting to look back to how she felt as a child. "Is there anyone? Anyone out there to love me? Anyone out there to care for?" she asks plaintively so that in the end it becomes a kind of hymn to the lonely, an anthem for the lost.
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