444-0060: Clothesline From Hell - "Nice enough words"

"Nice enough words..."

We first met Clothesline From Hell – Toronto-based songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Adam LaFramboise – with his incredible 2024 EP Soon We’ll All Be Smoking.

The four song project brilliants fused songs written and performed on acoustic guitar with programmed drums and samples, and the result was imaginative, energetic and full of colour.

“I wanted to take the radical honesty of lo-fi acoustic music and cross it with the ugly, sometimes funny extremity of something like the WWE,” he explained, around the project’s release.

“Nice enough words” falls right on the heels of the SWABS EP, but showcases another aspect of LaFramboise’s abilities as a singer and songwriter, diverging from the breakbeat driven tracks that defined the first project.

On “Nice enough words” he again collaborates with Matthew Tavares (Matty, BADBADNOTGOOD) on a swelling and emotional 2 minute and 30 second epic about how the most painful comments are often the ones intended to protect feelings.

“This is a song that came together with ease; written in one sitting, recorded in one session,” LaFramboise explains. ‘Aimed at my head, your nice enough words’, as in all those times when you get the sense someone is letting you down easy; sugarcoating the truth in order to protect your feelings. It’s an awful thing, when all you want is honesty, but someone else is deciding that you can’t handle it. To me this is the biggest flaw in a polite world, as the truth sometimes gets lost behind our manners.”

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