Taste Test: Eli Ruffer bubbles through all the ‘Laughing Falls’
The indie-folk storyteller reflects upon life’s mundanity and fading youth with a new song.
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Fear of wasted youth is a tie that binds us all. Perhaps, it’s the most universal of fears. There’s never enough time to do what we want or need to do. A rustic, tea-steeped warble, indie-folk singer-songwriter Eli Ruffer stretches his proverbial wings to brood upon his own juggling act of time and a youth that is fading as quickly as rose petals. “Laughing Falls” is an organic and profoundly plainspoken piece that unearths the unease by which we perceive time’s merciless hand. “The city’s big, but my world’s now small / And the river floats by laughing falls,” he speaks in a sing-song way, carrying with it a sly smile as much as the weight of the whole world. His shoulders nearly buckle, but it’s a temporary transition as he tries to find his footing. Now planted in Chicago, Ruffer takes a breather to allow life to impress upon him the necessary insight. His final line might be the most imposing of all: “I did not expect for life to be filled with such piercing mundanity.”
“Laughing Falls” is lifted from Ruffer’s new EP, Sleeping in My Kitchen: A Diary from Minneapolis, out everywhere now.
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