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not necessarily to receive things in return but perhaps to edge closer to the mystery of it all
Oct 4, 2024
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patience is always rewarded i am letting things be mysterious
Jan 26, 2025
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to have interesting little thoughts that you may or may not choose to share; this is the point of life
Jan 23, 2024
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things happen when they happen for a reason.... and i think that's beautiful test of patience
Aug 31, 2024
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Don’t you think that PI FYI is a bit like Wendy Cope’s poem The Orange if it was a social media platform? Everyone sharing and recommending the things that bring them meaning and joy in life. It’s so wholesome.
It’s been a minute but I have some time off this weekend so I will likely indulge some more of my thoughts and recs for the benefit of journaling.
Feb 22, 2025
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Tell me about the dream where we pull the bodies out of the lake
and dress them in warm clothes again.
How it was late, and no one could sleep, the horses running
until they forget that they are horses.
It’s not like a tree where the roots have to end somewhere,
it’s more like a song on a policeman’s radio,
how we rolled up the carpet so we could dance, and the days
were bright red, and every time we kissed there was another apple
to slice into pieces.
Look at the light through the windowpane. That means it’s noon, that means
we’re inconsolable.
Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us.
These, our bodies, possessed by light.
Tell me we’ll never get used to it.
Jul 1, 2024
Nate Amos - one half of the NY art pop duo Water From Your Eyes - is a font of seemingly endless musical invention with something close to 25-30 collections of songs to his name on bandcamp when creating under the guise of This Is Lorelei.
An absolute trove of unbridled imagination and what a delectable treat it all is too.
On This Is Lorelei’s freshest batch, ‘Box For buddy, Box For Star’, a sense of timelessness is epitomised in songs such as ‘Angel’s Eye’, ‘An Extra Beat For You And Me’ with their nods towards a spruced up re-treading of Americana as well as leaning into the psychedelic adventures of The Beatles‘ more whimsical songwriting in ‘A Song That Sings About You’.
That isn’t to say that this is an exercise in nostalgia fuelled plagiarisms for Nate.
These songs are vivid portraits of modern life where no production technique is left unturned with auto-tune affected vocalisations and patched in drum machine featuring heavily in album highlight ’Dancing In The Club’.
These bedroom production left turns thrown in amongst traditional songwriting techniques make for a collection of songs that are imbued with a millennial/Gen Z veneer, therefore marking out ‘Box For Buddy..’ as an album that could only have been released in the year 2024.
There really is something for everyone here.
FFO: Alex G, The Beatles (Revolver era), Elliott Smith.
Out now via Double Double Whammy.
Jun 29, 2024