Heimat self-describes as being “Born between Venice and Seattle,” and, I have to say, there is one memory of my visit to that particular stretch of Italy that reminds me greatly of their new track, All the Things I Could Have Done. The sort of exhausted-angry-and-tired feeling that this track embodies must have been present when I realized I’d taken the water bus two stops too far and had to double back—only to get back on the water bus continuing to go the wrong way. This is a song about everything going wrong, about the sort of explosive frustration that comes from the mistakes we make.
If my anger-headache-meets-dehydration headache from days of jet lag and misreading maps in Italian could have birthed a chord chart, it would have been something like this track. The Seattle influence is certainly felt. The chorused guitar, the heavy drums, the slow groove; it induces swaying, and it’s a hell of an earworm. They ride the line well between nostalgic influence from the 90s and 80s and with elements of more modern production, but this still feels like a track that could have come out in ‘97 or ‘99 without much fear of time travel.
Morgan Pettersson Feret, vocalist on this track and frontwoman for Heimat, is magnetic both in her vocal performance on the track and her appearance in the music video for this track.
Written by Willow Stonebeck
