I know it’s late, but I’m in a jittery mood. I know I won’t be able to sleep until I get something down, because there’s so much going through my mind. But first, take this. A gift. One that I was planning on keeping to myself, but to do so would be an injustice to music and the artists.
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Listen.
Just, listen.
Mogwai is an extremely influential post-rock band, and like most bands in this genre they usually produce instrumental music, so when Stuart sings, it demands attention. And yet his voice evaporates and becomes an instrument with which we hear our own stories pulled apart with delicate tenderness, like boys pulling wings off flies.
There's so much happiness and sadness to be felt down the spine in seven brief minutes. The latter from the tone, the former from the beauty.
If only we could see life so simply. If only we could separate the good from the bad, the love from the heartbreak. But we can’t. That’s why songs like this are composed, and that’s why words like bittersweet exist to help us define what can’t be explained.
It may feel like you’re constantly waiting for the next dawn to wash away the dust with sunlight, but at some point life ends, and life begins again.
All it takes is one day.
OMG thank you thank you thank you.… This is just exactly what I needed today.… DLing it now. It’s a flashback to The Cure’s Disintegration mixed with Red Housepainters’s delicacy. I generally have liked Mogwai, but this one I love.
Says everything you want to say.
Yeah, this one does stand out in Mogwai’s collection, and on one of their most accessible releases, that’s not easy to do.
Damn I can’t listen to the song right now at work
I hope you enjoyed the movie… I mean, I hope it makes you feel better about your current cicumstances…
“holy shit” hahaha.. that scene is one of my fav parts…
Imagine you listening to Thrice in the elevator and the new girl walks in and starts signing to it… haha.. heart explosions
Be sure to make sure your room is dark before listening.
I’m not sure what to make of the movie yet. It’s been a day, and I’m still not coming down from watching it. Everything is so jumble in my heart, like someone read my letters aloud.
And yeah, I was thinking Mars Volta, Blonde Redhead, Dreamtheater, or even Leonard Cohen, but Thrice would be the ultimate. The explosion would destroy the universe.
Take a listen to Corinne Bailey Rae’s “I’d Do It All Again.” Oh my god, the words, and her voice soaring above the softly filtered…lo-fi crystalline guitar arpeggios and organ. It rips me up.
Looking it up now…
“So weary… Someone to love is bigger than your pride’s worth–Is bigger than the pain you got, for it hurts, and out runs all of the sadness. Its terrifying, life… Through the darkness.”