[Original:Vocal Soft Rock] birds are sleeping ～feat. liebe / 松井庸 & liebe

Composer: Yo Matsui
Vocals: liebe
Album: 表象と構築
Circle: minimum electric design
Image by Robert-Erik: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukraine...

It's been a while since I had anything by Matsui on here. It doesn't seem like he's been too active lately, which is a shame because I liked a lot of the newer stuff he was putting out. "birds are sleeping" actually debuted on an earlier release, fragments 02, but that version is substantially different. For one thing, the vocals aren't present, but the music itself sounds more like a demo track once you've heard this version. Then again, I guess that's the point of his fragments series, since they're a lot cheaper and smaller scale than his full albums.

As I listened to this song more and more, I noticed that I liked the contrast between the vocals and the music. There's a faint sense of wistfulness in the staccato verses and the chorus, but it's countered by the rather more cheerful melody, which makes it kind of hard to characterize this song as one or the other. I think liebe really outdid herself by bringing that ambiguity to the vocals, and it's definitely my favorite song of hers. Personally, I associate it with those extra cold mornings where all you want to do is stay snug under the blankets and have a warm drink before tucking yourself back in.