Andy Shauf - Try Again
In Our Headphones
KEXP
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2020
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
Andy Shauf - "Try Again" from the 2020 album The Neon Skyline on ANTI- Records.
With his latest album, The Neon Skyline, Andy Shauf has crafted his most realized and engrossing work yet. You needn’t look much further than single “Try Again.” Shauf’s songwriting style is all finesse and detail. “Try Again” finds a narrator, presumably Shauf, trying to salvage a relationship that just won’t stick. And while the heartache of the scenario writes itself, it’s Shauf’s scene setting with drunken gaffes and awkward exchanges that ground his breezy reflection, culminating in the gut punch of a line “I make a silent toast to the things that I do and don’t miss.” With the light light of strumming acoustic guitars and Shauf’s charming croon, it’s a story you can’t help but be invested in despite it’s inevitably tragic ending.
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| 0:00.0 | And the Somewhere between drunkenness and chivalry I hold the door open and let her pass through. |
| 0:24.0 | She says thanks to me in a British accent |
| 0:28.0 | and I trade in to her in the same voice. |
| 0:31.0 | She laughs at me, says what was that supposed to be? I say I'm sorry |
| 0:37.0 | I'm from a different part of the country. She says come on baby, come on baby, |
| 0:44.7 | trury again. |
| 0:49.0 | Come baby, trache again. Somewhere between drunkenness and sincerity I smile at her for just a little too |
| 1:16.4 | long |
| 1:17.4 | Charlie's drinking wine Judy's laughing at him she says I forget that you're such a fancy guy. |
| 1:25.0 | He tips his hat. |
| 1:27.0 | Says, Ma lady, do you come here often? |
| 1:30.0 | I swear I've seen them do this 100 times before. |
| 1:37.0 | Come on baby, try again. |
| 1:43.0 | Come on baby, try again. |
| 1:42.0 | Come on baby, baby, try again. So we're Somewhere between Drunkenness and Charity, she puts her hand on the sleeve of my coat. |
| 2:12.0 | She says I've missed this. I say I know I've missed you too. She says I was |
| 2:16.7 | actually talking about your cold. She makes me laugh. Oh well she makes me laugh. |
| 2:23.0 | laugh. |
| 2:24.0 | I see sleep my head sink down and fix some deep sauce. |
| 2:27.0 | Come on baby, baby, tray again. |
| 2:35.0 | Come in baby, tr again. Oh, Somewhere between drunkenness and jealy, I watch you you talking is some old friend |
| 3:05.4 | What a reunion? You recognized her across the room how many years could there be to catch up on and somewhere between drunkenness and |
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