Song Review: The Milk Carton Kids - “When You’re Gone”
Cue the banjo.
Playing the instrument and singing of: pickin’ through a banjo tune I learned from you, the Milk Carton Kids are gonna miss you “When You’re Gone.”
There’s guitar with that banjo. Close harmonies, too, and the tiniest bit of purposeful rasp to add to the melancholy of this followup to “Running on Sweet Smile.”
The songs you loved to sing, they are still ringing in my ears, are the words Joey Ryan and Kenneth Pattengale deliver on “When You’re Gone”
With these singles, things are sounding good in advance of the Milk Carton Kids’ as-yet-untitled 2023 album.
yuuta is the boyfriend BAWLING when he has to drop you off at the airport. it doesn’t really matter how long you’ll be gone, he will be crying, and he’s gonna cry just as hard when he picks you up again too. but that’s not surprising, neither is saying that satoru smothers you in affection and soft gazes but waits until you’re gone and he’s back home to let the tears out. the real gag is that toji is also crying. it doesn’t happen when he drops you off, or when he gets home, and honestly he’s fine for the first few days—crabbier than usual, slower than usual, groggier than usual—but, fine. it’s somewhere around the third or fourth day of your absence that he finds himself crying, unintentionally. he feels the tears on his lips before he realizes they’re falling from his eyes, and there’s a moment of confusion and then a soft laughter of disbelief before he lets the rest of them fall. he doesn’t really know why he’s crying even while he’s crying. he doesn’t sob or make noise or smush his head into a pillow, but when he gets up to wipe his face, he’s confronted with his reflection in the mirror and that’s when it hits him: he’s sad. if you’d asked toji, he’d say he hasn’t experienced true sadness before that moment. despite all the shitty things in his life, he held a sort of neutral, it is what is attitude about it all—but that’s not the case with you. toji’s sad because he misses you and it’s probably the first time in his life he cries because he can Feel something is missing inside of him
Aaron being completely stuck on a complex math problem and being this close to tearing his hair out, cue Neil coming back from his evening practice with Kevin. He kicked Kevin’s ass so he’s feeling cocky enough to lean above Aaron to analyze it.
most universities and colleges have an RA or security for their dorm halls and I wanna know what the foxes RA thought. how often did they see or hear what was happening and choose to say they weren’t in the building bc they didn’t wanna deal with it. how many times did they go past security desks clearly intoxicated and the person at the desk just decided to turn a blind eye. when did authority figures decide to give up enforcing the rules for the foxes because they’re always dealing with a million different things