Local surfy instrumentalists The Pornadoes take their tongues out of their cheeks and bring the volume and tempo down for this very sweet love theme. If we’re talking Northwest guitar heroes, “Makes My Heart Sway” is less The Ventures and more a late night, minimalist Bill Frisell with no looper, no effects, no horns or strings; just softly brushed drums and rooted bass supporting a lovely guitar melody. I’m really happy that we ended up with three wordless love songs on this volume – and that they all, while sounding very different from each other, work so well as love songs. Love and music, two universal languages joining forces to make hearts sway worldwide!
If you’d like more Pornadoes in your life – and why wouldn’t you? – check out their newly released In Space, an early front-runner for best local cinematic-country-surf-jazz-rock album of 2014. (But seriously, it’s really good.)