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Move On

Totally Mild

2015

Move On

Release Date:  2015

By Pitchfork

Reviewed June 15, 2015

While Totally Mild’s debut album Down Time has flown relatively under the radar, it's received far more attention in the band's hometown of Melbourne. Awash in verdant arrangements highlighted by Zac Schneider's textural guitar playing and Liz Mitchell’s striking voice, soothing with an undercurrent of deep pain, Down Time hops from woozy to buoyant as it wrestles with the various shapes of heartbreak.-=-=-=-

On the album, "Move On" comes at a point of resolution after wallowing in the emotional exhaustion of a broken relationship, singer Liz Mitchell taking her feelings into her own hands. "Move On" feels like that point after a breakup, maybe a couple months on, when you realize clinging to the spectre of love, and trying to bring it back to life, is doing nobody any good. Whimsical and determined in equal parts, it's a shining talisman for the heartbroken.

8:00 PM · Jun 15, 2015