Just the repression and representation of queer longing in the song is incredible, and the connection to themes of land and space just hits hard
Jun 27, 2024
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Longtime listener, first-time caller.
S/O to Seattle's Michael Hadreas, who I first heard on KEXP years and years ago. His whole catalog is worth exploring (I particularly love 2020's "Set My Heart on Fire Immediately") and this one is from "Glory," due out later this spring.
This dude has long touched on issues of importance to the LGBTQ community -- this track certainly includes some of these -- but we all do him/his music a disservice to categorize it as anything other than "fucking great" which best describes this song's ascending and descending guitar chords, heartbroken vocals and his transformation from diva/dandy to fully-blown (ironic/send-up of a) Hell's Angel, which is very much in tune with the weirdly toxic masculinity that seems to be so omnipresent right now.
"It's a chorus reaching for us/
Swarming locusts wherever you go"
Hells yes I can't wait for the full LP to drop.
Jan 28, 2025
Specifically track 4 Salem Sisters
It (at least in my interpretation of the lyric) being about the social awkwardness of being at a party being depicted as being burned at the stake resonates with me an insane amount. plus someone (professor skye) called them British boygenius so you can’t go wrong. (man I wrote being a lot)
Apr 8, 2025
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Perfectly executed singer-songwriter single that would do NUMBERS if it came from someone in the boygenius extended universe. Funny, witty, disarming, and more than kinda downcast (“we promised that we’d live together in a tree/and watch the world end/but you got a boyfriend”)
Apr 12, 2024
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I cannot recommend this book enough, it was so eye opening to perceive the world as a collection of choices made by designers across time. And with their creations they have set in stone their ideologies and vision.
The Politics of Design by Ruben Pater
Jun 29, 2024
It’s nice to see seemingly disconnected items orchestrate a bigger picture that seems cohesive from afar but expands to individual people, moments and places
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