Dover Lynn Fox’s vocal performance steals the show on ‘Power Lines’. The gleaming folk-pop anthem from this Toronto based songstress feels so opulently cinematic. The arrangement is far from restrained, choosing instead to become something so full blooded and all encompassing. Power Lines itself finds itself written from a place of betrayal, and the sheer flood of emotions that start to unravel and flow out. It’s a whole intricate combination and interplay of many feelings falling on top of one another without much time to take any of them in. Heartache, anger, yearning, disappointment, each find their space before it ultimately concludes with rising above.
I love how the arrangement is able to convey that same overwhelming sense of emotion without it being focused or clear as to what precisely you need to be feeling. It simply overloads you with feelings till you can’t distinguish anymore. You’re left with a cathartic closure that allows you to vent and express it all before finding some sense of inner calm at the end of it all.