I love the oxymoron at the center of “Cloudburst”: “Caught in a cloudburst all day”. I sat on it for a long time. Then, in those uncanny first few weeks of lockdown in 2020, it suddenly seemed to describe everything around me. How long would this last? What would be washed away once it passed? Ambient fear suffused the placidity of a moment that never seemed to end or resolve. For me, this song is a study in stasis: by the outro, the cycling bassline churns below diurnal major chords and nocturnal minors in parallel keys. I thought of Debussy’s “The Sunken Cathedral”: submerged, changeless, uncertain, repeating.