New Mates Of State - "My Only Offer"

Make this advance track two from noted child-rearing bloggers/indie rock couple Mates Of State's Re-Arrange Us. Maybe not as memorably melodic as the outstanding "Get Better," but it's not for lack of arrangement: "My Only Offer" builds bells, glockenspiels, horns on top of a simple two-chord piano figure, with Kori and Jason's vocals swapping on the verses, harmonizing on the hook, hitting the callback/echoes later. All in all pretty pop, but the story here's in the lyrics, two lovers maybe not so much in love, slogging through the dulled luster, trying anyway. The chorus: "Oh, It's my only offer / stifled copies of myself / as someone else." Gives a little more resonance to the melody, innit.

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