There are many kinds of howling. (I am tempted to write an overly dramatic line here, like: ‘Has anyone ever counted the kinds of howling in the world?’) I am willing to bet most people don’t have many favourite kinds of howling, though. The deep howl produced by Colin Stetson and his saxophone definitely falls into that rarefied category for me. And if you’re thinking: “Naming a whirlwind instrumental 'The love it took to leave you’ will bring out some rare YouTube comments, right?”, then you are correct. Top comment at time of writing: “Chills through my whole body. This song is significant to my life right now. I had to leave my profoundly mentally ill wife of 22 years. Bitter bittersweet.” Some YouTube comments just make you sigh and close a browser tab like you’re deleting a painful e-mail from someone you care about. Aphex Twin has those in droves, by the way. Anyway, Colins himself says: “‘The love it took to leave you’ is a love letter to self and to solitude and to tall old trees that sway and creak in the wind and rain.” Yeah. *Closes browser tab, looks at tree outside bedroom window, quietly compares the sound of rustling leaves to a dimmed kind of howling*