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From Taking Back Sunday’s formative jolt to the songwriting freedom of Biffy Clyro and Coheed & Cambria, these are the artists As It Is have named as essential listening.
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A song about the ache of nostalgia, 'Crave' finds Hayley Williams caught between present and past, already mourning moments as they happen. The lyrics spiral through the paradox of living in the now whilst simultaneously reaching backwards, romanticising even difficult times and wishing to relive them. Williams captures that peculiar modern anxiety: the inability to simply exist without either documenting experience or grieving its passing. "Just for a second it all felt simple / I'm already missing it" becomes a refrain that pins down the song's emotional core, the repetition of "crave" hammering home the restlessness at its heart. Musically, 'Crave' sits comfortably within the mid-00s indie rock shimmer that defines 'This Is Why', all sleek production and taut arrangement. The track moves with purpose, its twinkling surfaces belying the genuine emotional weight beneath. A Dork five-star record, the album finds Paramore operating at the height of their powers, a band who understand how to marry surface gloss with substance, how to make anxiety and longing feel both immediate and timeless.
"Crave" is a track by Paramore, from the album This Is Why, released 10th February 2023. The track is 3:55 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 20 articles about Paramore.
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