Taste Test: David Stone twirls ‘On Wild Feet’
The Canadian folk singer-songwriter delivers a simple and sweet love song.
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Love songs fall into one of three camps: campy, utterly-saccharine and (on rare occasions) the beautifully-plaintive. Canadian singer-songwriter David Stone‘s new cut called “On Wild Feet” is planted quite firmly in the latter, with only minimal traces of the second category. While the acoustic drawn ballad drips with primrose sweetness, a lingering tang on his tongue, it grounds itself in simple adoration of two people whose orbits are fated to circle one another. “It’s the well-traveled love song / It doesn’t lose its meaning even when we get the words wrong,” he sings. Such self-aware introspection alleviates the pressure to deliver a timelessly-framed love song. Instead, Stone invites the listener to snuggle up by the fire and let the present simply wash over them and carrying them away. The warmth of both melody and arrangement nestles between the fire’s soft crackles. The night won’t be that long after all.
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