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Another fav song! My ex may have introduced me to them, I forgot. Discovered Lilys when I was living in Richmond. My ex may have inroducted me to them I forgot. Circling back to my last review, they’re another classic 90s shoegaze adjacent band, although at the time didn't get much hypeeee. Kurt Heasley is a superb guitarist, and this album, specifically A Brief History of Amazing Letdowns, is one of my all-time favorite albums. So much so, I'm planning on getting a tribute tattoo eventually 🤪I’ve posted about it many times, so sorry if it gets annoying, but I was sooooo sad living in Richmond. At this time, I wanted to listen to melancholic music to feel it all more deeply lol and this album did the trick. A piece of music becomes meaningful to me when it successfully makes me feel like I am either floating or drowning☁️🌊 There's not a single bad song on this album, and it's been difficult to narrow down my favorite tracks, but Elsa specifically fills me with warmth. It weighs me down, but I don't mind it. I love the intro, I broke your windowwwww 🪟 It's got that classic shoegaze guitar and his voice is so gentle I've cried many a time listening. This one I feel more than I hear. This album and track helped me through a very difficult time in my life <3 Music is magic if you think about it…
I broke your window Wore light blue felt-lined gloves Everything looks brighter when you're older, yeah I know my rider, he thinks he can Trade the work but keep the same Even when the light won't change You can ride by yourself You can ride by yourself I broke your window Left my right glove on the porch Everything looks brighter when you're older, yeah I know my rider, he thinks he can Trade the work but keep the same Even when the light won't change You can ride by yourself You can ride by yourself The moon is out and it's warm tonight I'll steal a car and wait outside I could be happy if you'd come with me Just came for the ride Really felt good and tight Before you go can I say don't leave Please, leave, please I broke your window Wore felt-lined gloves Everything looks brighter when you're older, yeah I know my rider, he thinks he can Change dark her world
I broke your window Wore light blue felt-lined gloves Everything looks brighter when you're older, yeah I know my rider, he thinks he can Trade the work but keep the same Even when the light won't change You can ride by yourself You can ride by yourself I broke your window Left my right glove on the porch Everything looks brighter when you're older, yeah I know my rider, he thinks he can Trade the work but keep the same Even when the light won't change You can ride by yourself You can ride by yourself The moon is out and it's warm tonight I'll steal a car and wait outside I could be happy if you'd come with me Just came for the ride Really felt good and tight Before you go can I say don't leave Please, leave, please I broke your window Wore felt-lined gloves Everything looks brighter when you're older, yeah I know my rider, he thinks he can Change dark her world
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⭐i have ordered a lot of new CDs. to keep this one short, i'm hopefully going to start my own neocities page and link it. ill still write here but I like the idea of my own webpage. could work for a j*b as well.
as for music to keep this SHORT before a big blog post soon.
All My Friends - LCD Soundsystem
this one speaks for itself. i hyped this one up for about a month before I actually listened to it, which was on my birthday for the right time. it's bittersweet. its a dream you don't want to ever leave. it's a party you never want to see go away. and unfortunately we will never Really live that. only want it.
one quotable line:
"And if the sun comes up, and I still don't wanna stagger home then it's the memory of our betters that are keeping us on our feet" anyways there's a lot more words to go with this song that I just cant write into this one. maybe another time. shoutout sentriescord for hyping this one up. Drinking Age & Nausicaä (Love Will Be Revealed) - Cameron Winter
love takes miles. is already a whole other song that can't be covered here but, WOW. this album has been in my rotation since it's release but it still hasn't failed me. geese too. today / I met who I'm gonna be / From now on / And he's a piece of shit / U R UR ONLY ACHING
this is a masterpiece. its beautiful. the subtle tempo changes, the abrupt pause into a synchronized guitar/vox part. how loud it gets. the easing in and out like a wave. the eventual explosion with violins, to a half-time. i changed my life you can too with this song. Front door keys in London, am I alright? Think I'm gonna fake it, one, two, revive Lost some years to talking, now I'm alright Last train out from under, out of my sight two riders down is a whole other song that just. can't be discussed yet. i really love this band. you should too. they need more support, finishing their foreseeable tour only 2 weeks after album release???? guys GO GO GO GO its time to listen to uplifting music this is it. anyways that's it bYE
this one speaks for itself. i hyped this one up for about a month before I actually listened to it, which was on my birthday for the right time. it's bittersweet. its a dream you don't want to ever leave. it's a party you never want to see go away. and unfortunately we will never Really live that. only want it.
one quotable line:
"And if the sun comes up, and I still don't wanna stagger home then it's the memory of our betters that are keeping us on our feet" anyways there's a lot more words to go with this song that I just cant write into this one. maybe another time. shoutout sentriescord for hyping this one up. Drinking Age & Nausicaä (Love Will Be Revealed) - Cameron Winter
love takes miles. is already a whole other song that can't be covered here but, WOW. this album has been in my rotation since it's release but it still hasn't failed me. geese too. today / I met who I'm gonna be / From now on / And he's a piece of shit / U R UR ONLY ACHING
this is a masterpiece. its beautiful. the subtle tempo changes, the abrupt pause into a synchronized guitar/vox part. how loud it gets. the easing in and out like a wave. the eventual explosion with violins, to a half-time. i changed my life you can too with this song. Front door keys in London, am I alright? Think I'm gonna fake it, one, two, revive Lost some years to talking, now I'm alright Last train out from under, out of my sight two riders down is a whole other song that just. can't be discussed yet. i really love this band. you should too. they need more support, finishing their foreseeable tour only 2 weeks after album release???? guys GO GO GO GO its time to listen to uplifting music this is it. anyways that's it bYE
Jun 12, 2025
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My friend Matthew Caws went about his music career completely backward.
His band, Nada Surf, had an MTV hit very early in their career, "Popular," and were then dropped (let go, get it?) by the major label that signed them and proceeded to make the best album of their careers on an indie label, without pressure or deadline.
As he told me once: "It's as if we got to start over again, a new band."
Matthew was living a musical life; working in a Brooklyn record store called Earwax, going to shows, writing music. In a way, "Let Go" is a record that asks "what if you had a second chance to do it all over again, the way YOU wanted to do it all along?" And then diving from head to toe into that opportunity.
I've had "Let Go" kicking around in one format or another for more than twenty years and always find something new to love about it; isn't that the very definition of "Favoritte album?"
"Blizzard of '77:" A mellow little piece of recoverred (drug) memory with a decidedly Elliott Smith vibe to it. Produced by then-Death Cab for Cutie member Chris Walla for $100, which the band paid to him in $1 and $5 bills from their merch sales at shows.
"Treading Water:" Linked here, the sound of what adulting in Manhattan looked like then (and still does). "Always rushing, always late."
"Neither Heaven Nor Space:" just high. "And if you sit long enough, you can hear ghost trains/As if the city speed is just in our brains/And coke's as close as we get to sugar cane."
"Blonde on Blonde:" Living that below-14th Street life, soundtracked by Dylan.
"Paper Boats:" a floaty, dreamy ode to depression. "Been thinking and drinking, all over the town/Must be gearing up for some kind of meltdown."
Years later, Matthew and I met up while they were recording their album "Lucky" at a live-in studio in Seattle called Robert Lang (it's the same place where Dave Grohl recorded the first Foo Fighters album). He had just discovered he was a dad and was in the middle of a custody fight over the child -- the mother hadn't told him it was his, there were lots of complications -- and we were comparing notes on fatherhood and just generally in the same headspace about having plenty of problems but being fortunate to have them. He's one of my favorite humans and "Let Go" is his masterpiece.
Oct 2, 2024
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craaaaaazy question to ask me specifically because now I will never shut the fuck up
I first came into contact with this album in 2022 or 2023 because its final and titular track was featured in the end credits of an episode of Girls. It immediately became one of my all-time favorites. Both gut-wrenching and hopeful, the song's narrator reminisces on a previous emotionally dark time for them, a time when they were grieving and trying to hold onto things they couldn't keep (underweight, in the street, hot with grief). The hope in this song, which takes the breath out of my lungs, lies in both the crucial past tense of these feelings and in the final lines, 'get well soon, get well soon / I was once just like you.' This has become a sort of mantra for me. Tucek takes something you would see on a kitschy greeting card and turns it into a plea for recovery.
Unfortunately, it took me months to sit down and actually listen to the full album in late winter 2024. It happened very much by accident. I was itching to hear something new and thought, well, at some point I should check out the rest of this artist's work, considering this is one of my top 5 favorite songs of all time. I never expected it to be such a work. I figured someone else would've sang its praises by now if it was going to change my life (which is why I adore this ask, because I think we all have an album like this, or at least we all should). The albums contains stories of grief, regret, dissatisfaction, bad fathers, and ultimately Moving On with a capital M. The track order is perfection. My other favorite song from this album is The Fireman. Somehow it is able to invoke in me feelings I've never experienced as someone whose father was not an absent asshole. The Doctor is a beautiful song about wanting to surgically excise the negative aspects of us that we get from our parents. Things Left Behind is great for thinking about death. Wooden has a perfect guitar solo.
This album is unique, fleshed-out metaphors with mostly a handful of acoustic instruments and an excellent voice. I would change nothing about it. I plan on tattooing the cover on my body because I want it to be a permanent part of my skin.
I might have to write more on this. Transcendent album. if you like Weyes Blood, Angel Olson, Aimee Mann, you will enjoy this. If grief is as constant to you as breathing you will enjoy this. If you're mad at your dad you will enjoy this.
Get well soon (and I mean it)! xoxo
I first came into contact with this album in 2022 or 2023 because its final and titular track was featured in the end credits of an episode of Girls. It immediately became one of my all-time favorites. Both gut-wrenching and hopeful, the song's narrator reminisces on a previous emotionally dark time for them, a time when they were grieving and trying to hold onto things they couldn't keep (underweight, in the street, hot with grief). The hope in this song, which takes the breath out of my lungs, lies in both the crucial past tense of these feelings and in the final lines, 'get well soon, get well soon / I was once just like you.' This has become a sort of mantra for me. Tucek takes something you would see on a kitschy greeting card and turns it into a plea for recovery.
Unfortunately, it took me months to sit down and actually listen to the full album in late winter 2024. It happened very much by accident. I was itching to hear something new and thought, well, at some point I should check out the rest of this artist's work, considering this is one of my top 5 favorite songs of all time. I never expected it to be such a work. I figured someone else would've sang its praises by now if it was going to change my life (which is why I adore this ask, because I think we all have an album like this, or at least we all should). The albums contains stories of grief, regret, dissatisfaction, bad fathers, and ultimately Moving On with a capital M. The track order is perfection. My other favorite song from this album is The Fireman. Somehow it is able to invoke in me feelings I've never experienced as someone whose father was not an absent asshole. The Doctor is a beautiful song about wanting to surgically excise the negative aspects of us that we get from our parents. Things Left Behind is great for thinking about death. Wooden has a perfect guitar solo.
This album is unique, fleshed-out metaphors with mostly a handful of acoustic instruments and an excellent voice. I would change nothing about it. I plan on tattooing the cover on my body because I want it to be a permanent part of my skin.
I might have to write more on this. Transcendent album. if you like Weyes Blood, Angel Olson, Aimee Mann, you will enjoy this. If grief is as constant to you as breathing you will enjoy this. If you're mad at your dad you will enjoy this.
Get well soon (and I mean it)! xoxo
Oct 22, 2024
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🌟I call everyone beautiful, like wow beautiful soul... beautiful face... beautiful human being 🕊️especially calling men beautiful lol<3 Sometimes they get confused, but it applies to Anyone, and that is... Beautiful
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