#18
Akron/Family: “So It Goes”
[from S/T II: The Cosmic Birth And Journey Of Shinju TNT / Dead Oceans]

It almost feels unnatural to separate a track from outside the context of Akron/Family’s immense concept that is S/T II: The Cosmic Birth And Journey Of Shinju TNT, but “So It Goes” is such an interesting and compelling track that it well deserves a little individuality.

Grabbing it’s title from an oft-repeated phrase from Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five, “So It Goes” utilizes a stream of consciousness style of storytelling to detail the narrator’s change of mind about having an open heart in the form of giving spare change to “the homeless people on the street”. It’s a simple story and doesn’t take more than a few lyrical lines to reach it’s overall completion, but the band’s message is quite clear: Allow yourself to have an open mind. Allow yourself to have an open heart. Your actions and the actions of others might not make sense at first, but in time, they will. It’s a clever statement from a band that has has had many triumphs and will continue to do so the longer they continue to explore not just the limits of their music, but of themselves as well.