Ball of Wax 65 Songs: defineartworks – “Sweet Life”

BoW 64/Telephone alum Timothy Ralphs returns under a different moniker with “Sweet Life,” a delightfully weird two-minute groove/meditation on what sounds, indeed, like a pretty sweet life. Pushed along by a chunky, Tom-Waits-Kathleen-Brennan-esque rhythmic loop, he unspools a  loose narrative of driving, chilling, and generally living pretty sweet. Different instruments pop in and out here and there, creating a surprisingly dynamic soundscape for a song of such brevity and rhythmic/harmonic consistency. Here’s hoping the future is, indeed, capable of containing such sweetness – and weirdness.