Can’t have too many Jim Nothing songs in a month of NZ music so what better way to start a shitty new week when you have to apply for a new job because the NZ Government wants to make 26,000 more people unemployed this year (targeting 50,000) to offset the inflationary effects their tax-cuts-for-landlords-and-the-wealthy will have on slowing down inflation in Godzone. This comes after it started it’s term of Government by vilifying the (smaller number of) unemployed and announcing a raft of additional requirements and sanctions for job seekers. Julian Cope and Jarvis Cocker wrote great songs to address such people but I’m a positive kind of person and the best cure for the banality of right wing populist politics is good music. “Hourglass” has the magic formula of simple delirious melodic fuzzy jangling guitar pop.

The first 6 notes of this song could play on a loop in my head forever and I’d be happy. Sometimes they do, but that’s the tinnitus. Maybe a phone ring-tone would be a better idea. Anyway there’s nothing particularly notable that can be said about this song. And nothing notable that needs to be said about this song. It’s existential philosophy about time slipping away, which is a good reason for enjoying the moment. In this case it’s a 2 minute 30 seconds moment. Enjoy.