Halen Sykes’ “Backtrack” hits you by surprise if you’re a reflective person who has been around a certain locale for any period of time to see things change and how your life intersects with those changes and the relationships and connections to time and place that ground you. And how that can trap you in a revisiting of the familiar and putting you back into situations that no longer serve the person you are now even if they feel comfortable and aren’t inherently negative. But the sense of stasis and how we self-reinforce our patterns that are both healthy and lead people down the path of the mid-life crisis where you wonder what your life could have been. And yet the crisis isn’t in the song, it’s a wistful yet knowing take on an on again, off again relationship cast in beautifully gentle and upsweeping melodies over a meditative but expressive performance on percussion
Queen City Sounds and Art 
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