I have never seen this album cover or heard of this artist before. A great way to take a break from my doom scrolling for the last hour or so. First Listen Takeaways: Track 1 - Big Exit: I like the electric guitar (or what I think is an electric guitar). I like the grit in her vocals, it feels a little bit like desperation. I don't know if it's due to the mixing of the vocals so it feels as if you're going through a tunnel and the mic is reverbed. It's angsty but I need another word...tense. can you be tense and content in the same body? "Sometimes it rains so hard/and I feel the hurt/in my heart" I think that's a part of the bridge, but that's how I feel right now. Track 2 - Good Fortune: I'm kind of just dropped into the track, a journey through the city, that's what I feel like when she does those vocal slides/vibratos (or at least that is what I believe them to be). "Everybody's got something good to say" Track 3 - A Place Called Home: I like that there are differing vocal stacks happening in m headphones at different times. This was an album made to be listened to with headphones. I can hear the hope and yearning she has about this current relationship she's in (after reading the lyrics of course). Also, I like the single cover for this track. She's crouched down behind some door, looking up at the camera, and it appears as though the wrists of her hand are wrapped lazily around the door handle. It feels liminal. I like liminal spaces. Why? Maybe the way I describe and think about music can include reflecting on the album covers, what I like/dislike, what comes to mind, colors, feelings, etc. I want to expand my brain and my ability to critically think about things and form fuller opinions with depth, that sound, feel, and is grounded in the time I took to listen to the pieces of art, listen and learn myself in relation to this work, when it arrived in my life, and the time in which the art itself has been released, and the time and deep knowledge that I have of myself, music, my craft, and language. Track 4 - One Line: "Can I draw a line to heart today?" Track 5 - Beautiful Feeling: This song has a haunting quality to it, something that would be at the end of a Charmed episode I think. I also really like that all of the songs up to this point is longer than 2:30; let's see if that's the case for the rest of the album. *I'll look at critique reviews after my second listen. Note: expand my vocab by reading more and understanding the language used to talk about music, albums, and artist, etc. Track 6 - The Whores Hustle and The Hustlers Whore: What a flip in a dynamic that's so normalize; that has stood the test of time and disease. I think this song as a whole is about flipping the dynamic. But I'm only listening right now and not actively reading the listens so lets see how that changes once I do. The guitar and drummer are having a conversation - what kind? I don't know yet. "This isn't the first time I asked for money or love/Just give me something I can believe" I think I just want someone to believe and care for me overly - I have victimized myself to a point where I think I need the external validation of a caretaker of higher authority to feel content and grounded in my life...weird. Track 7 - This Mess We're In: a soft coaxing, the drummer drops out as the vocalist sings the first verse, but then slowly comes back in. It feels like meeting someone in a low lit bar, strangers for the first time, but maybe not the last. The tone and texture of their voice can be the only thing that tells us what happens next in this story. Track 8 - You've Said Something: A ballad! The stories starts off on a rooftop in Brooklyn. The acoustic? guitar that's supporting in the beginning is important for transporting us to this memory in her head. I feel like throwing my head and arms around. Riding down an unpaved dirt road to some unrefined dream of freedom; one I'm too lazy or scared to explore because that would be the end of all other possibilities. So sitting in the familiarity of the memory, stale connection is better. "How did we get here?/To this point of living?/I held my breath till you said something" Track 9 - Kamikaze: "How could that happen?/How could that happen again?" feels a bit funky (thanks to that electric guitar, tambourine and some kind of percussive shakers in the back? There's confusion but not in choice but in the motivation behind the choice and what it may lead to next. What is a Kamikaze? In Japanese, Kamikaze means "divine wind/spirit wind" that originally referred to the typhoons that destroyed the Mongol fleets invading Japan in 1274 and 1281, saving the country. There were also Japanese pilots who conducted deliberate suicidal crashes into enemy targets, usually ships. Hmmm...how does this shift the meaning of the song for me? Track 10 - This Is Love: Very grunge...I miss my ex girlfriend right now. five days after an abrupt ending to our friendship. maybe this is what the end of my heart sounds like as I try to soothe myself and speed this along. Dread. "wanna chase you round the table/wanna touch your hand" Track 11 - Horses In My Dreams: "Set myself free again/I have set myself clear" even though the lyrics repeat most of the song, it seems like her conviction and strength in the words that she utters builds as the song plays. an ending that favors solitude and the quiet, water, after a chaotic journey through love and life. "set myself freeeeee again" Just her voice and a guitar. Not a man, not another woman, but herself. Whatever happened these last 10 songs, she has grieved, angered, roared, and cried through it. Now she exists quietly at sea. alone. Track 12 - We Float: "you carried all my hopes until something broke inside/we float/take love as it comes" I don't know how to do that yet, but the chorus of this song feels whimsy enough that it makes me think I can. *Note to self: watch the music videos/short films/interviews associated with these articles. Read the articles that came out too if you can!
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