Everything Still Out On The Counter
The sixth track is recorded. It runs backwards, and it is the only song on the record that is not about being pushed out.
In Rewind breaks the album's subject on purpose. Every other track is about a person being edited out of a picture by other people. This one is about the picture ending while he still had things out on the counter.
The images are deliberately small and domestic. A light left on in the kitchen. A door in the hallway that sticks in summer, that he said he would plane down in June, that is still sticking. A message on a screen he said he would answer when he had finished, and he never finished anything.
Its sections run in reverse chronology, each one entered through reversed reverb, so the record arrives at the beginning of the evening last. The verses are elastic and almost muttered; they only snap to a hard grid for the screams. There is no resolution in the harmony because there is not one in the subject.
It sits after Cold Start, which means the album's last word is no longer the one that starts an engine on flat empty ground. Sequencing follows the masters, and the masters say this comes last.