The music behind his words suggests the full story lies in the blur. In Cook-Wilson’s hands, it’s not always easy to differentiate love songs from breakup songs, moments of connection from total isolation, forward momentum or a quickening spiral.
Where previous albums introduced a vast cityscape of scenery and characters, 'Big Time Things' zooms into each lonely window, so close that it can be difficult to know what exactly we’re looking at.
Office Culture’s most ambitious project is also their most intimate and thematically focused. The choruses offer humble pledges (“I only want you to be happy”) and uneasy interruptions (“Stop, I feel nervous”) the band swells and sprawls the arrangements incorporate strings, horns, and backing vocals, suggesting how each moment casts its own shadow. On the third album from Office Culture, the Brooklyn-based band led by pianist-songwriter Winston Cook-Wilson, the magic is in how every element of their texturally rich, emotionally complex music conjures these same visions. 'Big Time Things' is a story of crossed wires and missed connections, sleepless nights and scrapped plans. I’ll crouch, cock it back, spear it to the wall In the haze of that memory I thought I’d lost it all too Sing me a song of that ruin like it had stolen your youth When I think of the ideas they implanted in youĪll the marks to fall short of, rusty twists of the truth
Well, there’s more to the story but I’ll mask my toneĬause we’ve got better hills to die on and troops of our own Well, you don’t have to be like that with me babyĪnd you said “don’t look at me like that” It was our parents’ generation, we should’ve remembered to call So somebody might know we’d been here at allĪs if poets and kings would sing of our rise and fall We stuff crumpled receipts in cracks in the walls
We pull out of it slowly when we feel out of place You and me and the world in one cold embrace You’ll drop the act you practiced so often
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