Ball of Wax 68 Songs: Lake Mary, Drew Danburry, zweiton – “You Say Love”

“You Say Love” is the title track from a collaborative album by our pal Drew Danburry, Chaz Prymek, and Dylan McGuinn. I don’t know much about the other folks, but based on what I’m hearing in this track, this seems to be a collaboration comprised primarily of guitars upon guitars, which could really spell disaster, or at least mediocrity, but in the right hands, it’s truly a thing of beauty. “You Say Love” definitely falls in the latter category. It’s primarily based on a deceptively simple (six bars plus two beats, leaving the listener relieved yet somewhat back-footed each time we come back to the beginning) repeating melodic line and chord progression, accompanied by swirling, echoed-out guitar noises and field recordings that gradually grow over the course of the song’s run time. What starts off as an enjoyable color to the main theme starts to demand more and more of your attention, while the chords and melodies build in response. There are also new sounds, what might be strings and winds, soaring above, and a bit of bass reinforcement to the primary theme. This dynamic continues to the end, where the instruments drop off and we’re left with a swirling mass of instrument noise and shuffling sounds, that cycles up into a whirlwind of sound, and then–