Beth/Rest

There’s something about that song in deep winter that just gets under your skin. The orchestration builds so gradually you barely notice it happening, and then suddenly you’re sitting in the dark and the strings are everywhere. Justin Vernon at his most intimate, I think—not hiding behind production, just this voice and what sounds like the whole architecture of loneliness arranged around it. I’ve played it so many times I’ve stopped hearing it as a song and started hearing it as a room I keep going back to.