SADNESS: WILDFIRE

She dropped a snowstorm. Smashed and broken on a cold stone floor.Still, after all these years, one of my favourite opening couplets – so visual, so intoned with bitter-sweet sentiment (as, of course, is the rest of the song).Hamish MacKintosh, who recorded this track under his Fuel moniker, is one of those obscure artists from from an equally obscure part of the world (hello Forfar) who never achieved the audience his textured, atmospheric confessions deserved. “Wildfire” was only ever re...

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