What happens when a guitar gently weeps? Does one reminisce about the one that got away? Or, of love long gone?
“Stay” off former Elefant frontman, Diego Garcia’s first solo release, Laura, harkens the listener back to the simplicity of the unplugged generation with the eerie pain of its nylon guitar.
Garcia is a New Yorker via Argentine parents. Like most Hispanics in the 1980′s he grew up heavily influenced by Morissey and the Smiths, by Robert Smith and the Cure, as well as their Argentine offshoots, Soda Estereo. He comes from a generation of romantics – helpless romantics at that.
New York is a place that can easily espouse feelings of helplessness – rumbling by even as one is caught in despair. For all of us there has been a Laura in our lives at one time or another. “Stay” embodies feelings that we have all felt. As quickly as we begin to reminisce of a time before sunrise, the song ends with an abruptness shared only by the elusiveness of our dreams.
