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Phil Eleverum.. your favorite indie artists favorite indie artist?
Headless Horseman was released in 2001 by The Microphones, in the album titled âThe Glow, Pt. 2â. The Microphones was a project created by Phil Elverum, who is now currently releasing as Mount Eerie.
I discovered The Microphones a few years back, and I was originally drawn to them because when I heard âThe Moonâ It reminded me of Neutral Milk Hotel, but better?
The Glow, Pt. 2 was the first album of Philâs I listened to. Headless Horseman has always been a favorite of mine. Itâs always so fascinating when I hear a song thatâs so simple, just two chords and a little riff, and then a voice, but itâs so impactful and beautiful and unique.
The vocals are amazing. Itâs gentle and soft spoken, which perfectly compliments the guitar. idk man i fuckin love this guys voice.
A notable thing about Phil is his ability to paint a scene with his music. His songs always sound so nature-y, and even has some ambient-like qualities as well. Also heâs good at somgwriting lemme talk abt that..
The lyrics depict a shitty breakup almost perfectly. Breaking up with somebody you truly love just does feel like losing half your life. All their friends you befriended, gone. All the stuff they gave you, gone.
âyou turned me into a stray dog,
from a mighty human manâ
All left to do now is just be an emotional wreck. You lost your home and now you just sit and stew and think about how badly you wish you could be home again, in that warm embrace you yearn for every night.
âI miss my closest friendâ
Realest lyric ever. The most beautiful thing about a relationship full of love is that your partner WILL be your best friend. And you know thatâs what also suck a lot about breakups. Not only do you miss your partner, you just miss your best friend.
You MUST listen to The Microphones if you like anything folk, noise rock, ambient, and just good songwriting/storytelling and producing/mixing.
FIVE BIG BOOMS
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Phony ppl is one of those bands that can only be described as anointed. A four piece collective whose limitless melodies and prescient lyrics feel extraterrestrial, they're a band whose music resonates with me on a higher frequency. 2025 marks the 10th anniversary of their album, Yesterday's Tomorrow: the release that made me fall in love with them in the first place. It's fitting to love a project just as much today as when I heard it a decade ago, the music animated around that very truth: time is circularâyesterday is tomorrow is today.
Even though the group vibrates on a frequency so high, it's like they're from another worldâthey're as Brooklyn as it gets. I once met the group's frontman, Elbie Thrie, on the street in Crown Heights. It felt like divine intervention. I had just gotten my heart broken for the hundredth time by the same guy (a guy who, btw, had put me on to their bandcamp project Phonyland). What were the chances of meeting the musician who had penned so many songs that revolved around right person, wrong time? I mustered enough courage to let him know what the music meant to me, to ask him if he got stopped in public a lot, how it all felt. He was as disarming in person as he was on stage. I'd see Elbie again, along with the rest of the band, at their show at the turn of the new year in 2022. They'd indulged the crowd with a few tracks from YT. Maybe it was the shrooms I was on, but I swear when they performed HelGa., Elbie looked directly into my eyes and sang it straight to me. It was an experience that later inspired one of the first personal essays I ever published.
There are dozens of other significant moments I've lived with Yesterday's Tomorrow. Its tracks have held me down through heartbreak and longing, and then given me the courage I needed to take a chance on joy again. Tonight, they play the first of three shows at my old favorite bar in Brooklyn in celebration of the last ten years of YT. If I had one shot at teleportation I swear I'd use it to see them play again, easy. Because like the album's ultimate track knowingly croons, there are just some things that you love forever.
THREECE.
Jan 14, 2025
found them as an opener and went on a deep dive the night before seeing them live and omg!! the best thing to happen to indie rock in the last year imo. the whole album is insane but where weâve been is a masterpiece and reminds me a lot of tpwhitb by black country new road so if ur into that listen! and if you want ur heart ripped out of ur chest listen to for ella đ«
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def a special case since this is the band I used to manage, but this album was part of a huge turning point in my life. the band is a few friends I went to college with and ended up moving in with my junior year. I knew them from their early days playing shows around NYC and slowly adding new songs to the set list, and by the time we lived together they had the whole album written. I was basically the Frankie Jonas to their Jonas Brothers until they decided they wanted to finally put their years of work out into the world and asked me to be their manager. working with them was my first experience in that kind of role and led to me pursuing it as a career, which Iâm currently in grad school for.
genuinely love this album musically tho, itâs rough around the edges as it was produced before and during the pandemic and was a mishmash of studio recording and DIY stuff we threw together in our living room, but I think it adds to the charm. if youâre into indie rock with emo lyrics and noisy shoegazy type guitars def give it a listen. the songwriting is super personal to the vocalist and knowing her life outside of the album and what went into the songs makes it that much more meaningful.
every time I listen to this album it takes me back to having just graduated, not knowing what I was doing with my life, but knowing that I got so much fulfillment out of putting music into the world and unknowingly stumbling into figuring out what I did want to do with my life. wouldnât be where I am now had I not been a part of making this album happen
Apr 11, 2024
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Annie by Mac Demarco
iâm going dooooooooooownnnnn
Jan 8, 2025
Adrienne Lenker is one of the most talented artists weâll see in our lifetime. Sadness As A Gift will always have a special place in my heart.
The first time I heard this song was with my beautiful girlfriend. We had just gotten back together and we were going to a show. We accidentally drove to the venue too early (in wherever the fuck maryland) and so we just sat in the parking lot and caught up on music we both found the 9 months we were apart. She showed me this song and i like how much it reminded me of her and i. I mean, I leaned on the windowsill hoping sheâd write me someday.
One thing I like about this song a lot is the little country aspects, just using a lot of cowboy chords and that violin that just makes u feel like ur at the petting zoo at a county fair on a hot sweaty summer day and it smells like manure. but in a good way.
The harmonies are also a nice touch, theyâre a bit quiet; but thatâs so okay because if adrienne lenkerâs voice was any less prevalent the song would not be as good.
So yeah definitely listen to this song. Learn it to!! sing it with your partner!! itâs fun and very easy to play on guitar if youâre still afraid of barre chords. 5 big booms.
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Suis la LuneâŠ
Could be the goats of screamo⊠idk guys.
This song is the perfect mix of angry and sad, which fortunately makes the best emo music! First time I heard this song was under a bridge in Richmond. I was seeing a band called Godfuck and they covered this song and i just had to hear this song again. Now I wonât lie.. I do skip that long ass intro. But if you listen to it for the first time, it really does add to the song so donât skip it for real. I love the composition of this song, just progresses in the coolest fucking way. The intro is just very introspective. like a walk through the forest at maybe 7:00pm on like october 15th? and then you hear that REALLL intro⊠that distant lead guitar riff echoing just hooks you. And one thing about Suis La Lune is they do NOT disappoint with those screams. From desperate-sounding to angry, just flawless. And that bass just ramming and ramming in your ear dude you know shit is REAL. If you are getting into skramz/screamo whatever you want to call it and havenât check out Suis La Lune, do it. Coolest sounds ever. 5 big booms.
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