One of my favorite parts about music is the slow build.  What I mean by this is the song that starts simple, soft, and slow.  And it gets you listening to it’s quiet and before you know it you are raptly focused on the words, listening for something.  You don’t know what.  And then it starts ramping up, building to something before you’ve even noticed it.  The hairs on your neck and back raising until it hits you.  Take a listen.

Alexi Murdoch‘s “It’s Only Fear”

Because he starts soft, his words at the end come in like a punch to the gut.  I love it.

What do you think?  What other songs build up this way?  What does this tell us about life and how we do things?