Mick Eddy has lived in six countries and settled in a seventh, and Strange Weather is the debut album he has written and produced from a long-distance love. “Come Over” and “About You” are the first two singles, both shaped as letters to a person the singer cannot reach by walking next door.
Come Over
“Come Over” is built on a single request that Mick Eddy cannot make in person, and the song is the next-best thing to a knock at the door. The track is heavy with memory and longing, the guitars running at a low temperature, and the song never quite breaks the surface. The chapter the song is reaching for is the one the long-distance has put out of reach.
“Come Over” treats the long-distance as if it were a single room, and the request is small enough to fit inside the song. A singer who has moved through six countries is writing from a fixed address, and the song does not pretend the move is over. The groove runs heavy, and the heaviness of it is the only weight the song allows. The longing is held inside the texture of the guitars, and the singer never asks for the room to be cooler.
“Come Over” is the first of two singles from Strange Weather, an album Mick Eddy has been building across continents. The single holds the listener’s hand without taking the listener anywhere, and the song is the door. Mick Eddy is on the other side of it, asking the listener to come through.
About You
“About You” widens the lens of the same long-distance condition that “Come Over” was built on, and the song is Mick Eddy’s second single from Strange Weather. The singer has stopped asking the listener to come over and started looking at the person across the room, and the song is what he sees from that distance. The closeness is the song’s only weather.
The singer has stopped asking for anything in “About You” and started describing the person instead. “Come Over” is built around a request, and “About You” is built around an address, and the two singles are letters to the same person. The singer has moved from the door to the window. Intimacy is the only weather the album allows.
“About You” is the second single from Strange Weather, the second look at the same person. “Come Over” was an invitation; “About You” describes the listener as if the listener were already in the room. The album is the weather that has settled over a long-distance love.
