Peter Coviello

“What happened next took up about four minutes and thirty-four seconds. That, anyway, is how long “Dalliance” takes on the record. But somewhere inside the dilated time of that performance—and “Dalliance” is a slow-blossoming bruise of a song, one that broods over a woozy guitar riff and ascends finally toward a huge uncoiling blast of sound—somewhere along that way, aflail in a way only someone generous-hearted would call “dancing,” it came to me. I knew it, right there, without words and well beyond the possibility of contradiction: It is better to be doing this, exactly here, exactly now, than any other human thing.”
― Peter Coviello, Long Players: A Love Story in Eighteen Songs