Bury your roots

What? Another Matt Good song? What is wrong with Barrie, you must be asking. No Mog posts in ages and then two about the same guy?!Well, Matt Good is rather unique in my music pantheon, someone who came along right at the beginning of my teenage years, whose songwriting has matured along with me. His songs always seem relevant to me, especially since they always change their context.So here is Born Losers, which must be a single (I really have no idea, being away from Canada for so long now). I say that because it's been a total earworm for me, in the way that only Good's songs can be for me. It's also thrillingly sophisticated.If you were to go solely by the first few bars, one would assume this is a cheery, happy song. And it is, in a way. But the lyrics are the bitter, negative kind of thing we expect from Good when he ruminates on the characters from his past. This entire album is different though, in that in the past these kind of songs have always been railing against those characters, against what they stand for and angry at the place they had within Good's life. This time around, there is a large amount of acceptance. So this explains the jangling guitars, the bright and open production, and the punchy hook. The melancholy and anger is there but is inter weaved with the joy of acceptance, the realization that he can move on now.One of my favourite tracks of the year, basically.I promise I'll upload something completely different next time.