Robert McGinty - Return to Lullaby Mountain
Haunting and sorrowful as it begins, Return to Lullaby Mountain feels like an exploration of bittersweet melancholia. It makes you want to sink into the sadness it creates and not fight it. To feel all the things that you couldn't feel because you couldn't process it. Robert McGinty forces you to sit with your sorrow as the piano plays its seemingly endless melody. With only one instrument, a sole piano, this track evokes such a deep and overflowing ache that you cannot shake off. It is so intensely lonely and sad, paralleled by the lack of accompanying instruments. It reminded me of the feelings I had as I watched the movie Hugo. That movie left me feeling a little hollow, not because it had a sad ending but because it explored grief so well that it stayed with you even after the story ended. This song makes me feel the same way. The sadness just lingers despite you trying your hardest to move on. The arpeggiated melody that leads to a swell in the music gives you hope for a happier sound, but it returns to the melancholy again, relentless as it mourns. Like it's recalling a memory of the happy moments just to be brought back to reality again. I think this song encapsulates what you feel after you lose someone or something and come to terms with it. Never-ending grief for the love you lost and the love you still carry for whatever you lost. Like the sea, with waves that can be so gentle one day and can sweep you away another, to forever be lost. But never still. Robert McGinty carefully and perfectly renders the tragic beauty of grief.
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