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There’s a pick-slide that starts about a minute and 35 seconds into “Thaw And The Beasts” that is probably the most extraordinary moment in all of the 38 and a half minutes that Texas Rose, The Thaw & The Beasts comprises. For a whole minute, Raymond Raposa laboriously, achingly scratches the edge of his pick against his guitar string. It’s slow torture. It’s fucking gorgeous. And for a songwriter known for his plain-spoken lyricism, it’s this instrumental flourish that says most about the song’s mourning desolation.
But that’s why he’s a good songwriter, and not just a good writer.
Where his lyrics...
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