Melancholy cool edition

O Tannenbaum. What Child Is This? My Little Drum. Linus and Lucy. Christmas Time Is Here Instrumental. The Herald Angels Sing. Christmas Is Coming. The labored production, detailed composition, and deliberate pace of One Year all cohere to perfectly mirror the emotional upheaval of trying to mend a broken heart. The production alone speaks to this, employing live string players and moving meticulously where limited budgets and recording deadlines only allowed for Mellotron parts to represent the string sounds on the Zombies ' definitive work Odessey and Oracle.

Though former Zombies Rod Argent and Chris White have a hand in production and songwriting, the atmosphere here is solitary and reflective, differing from the collaborative excitement that crackled in even the more subdued Zombies material. In particular, the stripped-down piano and guitar rendition of "Caroline Goodbye" shows a different angle of the album's specific downturned beauty.

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Aggressive Bittersweet Druggy. Energetic Happy Hypnotic. Romantic Sad Sentimental. Yasashisa ni tsutsumaretemo Nanto mo nai no I'm in the dark "Datte watashi wa, hontou ni anata ni shinde hoshiin damono.

Tsumaranai hodo muki ni naru no ne Kanjiru sekai wo misete agetara Amari no kyoufu ni Now, some 60 years later, my siblings and I — along with our children, stepchildren and grandchildren, not to mention generations of friends — are the beneficiaries of that seemingly simple decision. Alas, there are limitations linked to our camp. Instead, the bulk of its use comes during one magical season, when the water warms up enough to allow all of us — even the wimpiest — to swim.

Sure, the bugs are biting. And sure, the pond gets busy with the sound of motorboats and personal watercraft and chainsaws and lawnmowers. And while our early June chores of opening up camp are always conducted with an air of optimism as we look forward to the sunny days ahead, closing up camp is the opposite: No matter what the weather on the chosen day, it always seems a bit gray and melancholy as we go about our tasks.

The boats have to be dragged to the camp and stowed, stacked inside like cordwood in the large front room. The picnic table and the hammock are similarly stowed in their spots, as is the large, portable fire pit.