Even Happy Little Clouds need the heavens to part and beam down a little enlightenment now and then.
“Can someone tell me just how the game gets played?” singer and guitarist Jac Mestel implores on “I Don’t Suppose,” the Boston band’s new single about reckoning with romantic naïveté. The tune arrived earlier this week (May 1), revving a grungy stomp to power their coming-of-age brush with love and loss.
“I wrote this song when I was naive and first figuring out how to navigate early adulthood,” reflects Mestel. “I really felt behind my peers in so many ways, most notably in dating as a young queer person.”
Partially evoking “The Fool” archetype commonly seen in tarot (peep the cover art), “I Don’t Suppose” presents an inner dialogue that begs to be belted — and Mestel does, offering a musical-worthy delivery. Palpable frustration percolates through the song, but never erases the short-sighted sense of whimsy associated with young adulthood. As the band remarks in an Instagram post: “It’s never too late to get messy and fall off a cliff while looking at the sky.”
Check out “I Don’t Suppose” below.