Roads – Portishead

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Have you ever had low moments in your life where you could only stay in bed and listen to a song on a loop?

I've had some of those over the years, this song joined me on one of them. It takes a very beautiful song for me to enjoy listening to it over and over again.

This song is incredible, I remember the deep effect it had on me from the first time I listened to it. It just has such a strong effect, it's so profoundly expressive, it just gives you an air of beautiful despair, it embraces you in a hopeless sight.

It's so simple in its honesty and it really doesn't need any embellishments, it doesn't need any excessive complexity to undress your soul and leave you silently craving for comfort, wondering where all that sadness came from.

It's the honesty of the voice and how its beauty just gives you so much, you feel like you received a very special part of her soul, right in front of you, the beauty of the human soul in all its pain and difficulties.

The famous NYC live version is even more powerful, the clip you can see in Youtube at the top of the searches, I have seen it so many times and it never fails to leave an effect on me, this is just that powerful and that raw.

The live strings just add up to the poignant effect, they just make it ten times more beautiful, more real.

I was doubting between adding the studio version or just the live version to the playlist but I stayed with the studio one because the live version has too many interruptions from the public and that just tends to disconnect you a bit, besides, in the Spotify version of the track the strings don't have that strong of a sound as in the youtube version and the tempo is quite different too.

Let us just enjoy this beauty and let it enter straight into our hearts tonight.

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Musician from Colombia, constantly inspired and moved by music and trying to express it in the best way posible, trying to find common souls who get as transformed by music and sound as he does.

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