““Car” is Porches’ ode to the automobile, and its beauty lies in its earnestness. “It takes us away from where we are/Oh, what a machine!” Aaron Maine marvels, like the New Yorker he’s become. He sings something so simple and obvious, though free of irony. For Maine, his car is a mechanism he can use to escape towards greener fields. Perhaps unintentionally, his audience become his confidants, as w”
