It is Bank Holiday Monday morning and as I write this, a cover of Future Islands’ ‘Seasons (Waiting on You)’ is playing on repeat on my laptop. “Seasons change and I try hard just to soften you.” It’s something about the rhythm of that line that keeps me returning to it. It might be how it forms a metrical palindrome in the way the stresses fall. I imagine a mirror, or pivot, between ‘try’ and ‘hard’, and a great blossoming from its centre, rather than from left to right. Its content adds emotion to its appeal, but its structure has a symmetry and simplicity that’s as pure and as honest as a blush. It is one of the most beautiful first lines in music and it is being sung by Rebecca Taylor of Slow Club. The song is a tapestry rich with feeling that Slow Club delicately weave their own brand of richness through. The Future Islands original was the soundtrack to last June’s family trip to Gdansk in Poland and I am transport...