Say it all...

There is something about music that wobbles along the balancing line between melancholy and optimism, something captivating about music that seems in a moment miserable, and in a moment hopeful.

It's very rare to hear this kind of atmosphere in a song that makes it to the mainstream - vaguely depressing ambiguous expressions of emotion tend to lack the killer hooks required to move units in the way required to hit the top of the charts.

“Say it right” by Nelly Furtado captures this indicisive acheing better than any track I can remember, and could almost stand entirely without lyrics and be just as powerful. Impossibly magnetic, the desolation of her latest single is a level beyond and above anything she has previously produced.

Devastating.