uyuni

"uyuni" begins with a breakup and a line that refuses to make things any easier: "It's not that I stopped liking you."

Moving through fragments of conversation and small memories - a story about birds flying in a flock without colliding, a latte, a large scarf caught in the wind - the narrator looks back on someone who always seemed free and impossible to hold onto, while still struggling to make sense of why the relationship had to end.

Driven by a fast-moving organic alternative band sound, with textured electric guitars, melodic bass and dynamic live-feeling drums, the track pairs its forward momentum with a conversational male vocal.

Only as those memories accumulate does another realization begin to emerge: how quietly and consistently he had been surrounded by her kindness.

The title refers to Bolivia's Uyuni Salt Flat, a place that once came up casually in conversation as somewhere she would like to visit someday. Near the end of the song, words become a metaphorical mirror, and that remembered conversation begins to overlap with the image of Uyuni.