“This is the day, your life will surely change,” pleads Johnson, addressing himself. It’s about time slipping through your fingers, and self-doubt – but mostly, it’s about change, and the lack of control we have over it. It’s a paean to emerging from adolescence with the world in front of you, self-inflicted sleepless nights, and an inability to quite grasp the sheer enormity of it all. One of my ghosts is “This Is The Day”, the 1983 single written on an omnichord by Matt Johnson, lead singer of London post-punk band The The. Songs that just live with you, in every city, in every house. Songs that soundtrack moments of unadulterated joy, periods of intense unhappiness, or just nondescript train journeys. There’s an unspoken emotional contract between the soul and a song that binds you together from the moment you hear it, until the day that you die.
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