This might be the perfect song for this forked up Vancouver “it’s always cloudy in Vancouver” weather. 😤

The 30-Day Song Challenge. I’ve been seeing it on a lot of my friends’ Instagram Stories, and at first I just ignored it because everyone was doing it and I got spammed with people’s stories left and right about it, but now since most people already finished this, I won’t be as influenced of my choices when I see their answers. So last time it was Day 2.

Time for Day 3.

Day 3 is pick a song that reminds you of summertime, and what song to remind myself of a summertime feel is Expert In A Dying Field by The Beths. I mean you could extend it to their entire discography. If not that, the album where this song is. Which is also named Expert In A Dying Field.

I discovered The Beths around a year ago when one of my bassist friends played a cover of The Beths’ latest single, Watching The Credits. Once I heard the song, I felt like those movies where grayscaled sad characters get rid of that grayscale and brightens up with colors and be happy again. So I decided to jump into the discography hard.

I recommend listening to that too if you have time. Even the album, I mean go ham on The Beths. It’s a worthwhile ride.

Of course each song I would go to Youtube and see what people think about Expert In A Dying Field (the song), and the best comment (as it should be) was: “It’s a rare moment in life when you hear a piece of music and instantly realize you have a new favorite song. It’s the feeling of seeing a comet – and knowing that you may never experience it again, which causes you to savor it all the more.”

For me, I feel the same but for most if not all the songs in The Beths discography. This band is just pure sunshine. I mean I love this band so much that I even wrote an article about it a while ago.

According to Spectrum Culture, “Expert in a Dying Field” is a clever metaphor for the way it feels after you’ve split with someone, but are still maintaining all that (now-useless) information about your relationship in your head. The song is inescapably catchy but also filled with creative turns of phrase like “I can close the door on us/ But the room still exists” and wisdom like “You can’t stop/ Can’t rewind/ Love is learned over time/ ‘Til you’re an expert in a dying field.”