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'Ice Cold Pool' weaves together fragments from Wallows' own catalogue, most notably the earlier song 'Underneath the Streetlights in the Winter Outside Your House', to construct a meditation on growing up. The track moves between scenes of youthful transgression and the creeping awareness that innocence cannot be recovered, anchored by its repeated refrain about the cold pool and the need for warmth. The song builds its argument through a series of small moral distinctions: the difference between taking what's offered and paying for it, between knowing what comes next and wanting to escape it anyway. There's a weariness here, a sense of standing outside looking in, of recognising that some things cannot be restored once they've been cut down or left to wilt. The interpolations from Wallows' past work give the track a recursive quality, as if the band is examining its own artistic history whilst singing about the impossibility of returning to an earlier self.
"Ice Cold Pool" is a track by Wallows, from the album Nothing Happens, released 22nd March 2019. The track is 3:58 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 20 articles about Wallows.
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Dork’s April 2022 response to Harry Styles’ ‘As It Was’ put it alongside The Strokes, Wallows and Alfie Templeman. It was a description of the song’s place in pop at the time, not a claim about confirmed influences.
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