1 of 2 albums I can think of at the top of my mind that I listened to in its entirety. This takes me back to that summer in 2013 when I was listening to this album non-stop along w some indie songs I discovered thru 8tracks (I don’t know if anyone else will know this site, it was a gem). Also it was the time of my life I was just getting to know freedom from being able to travel solo and/or w friends or just discovering life. Akin to a coming-of-age movie. 😅 I don’t know if I make sense.
Feb 20, 2025
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This song soothed me, made me cry, made me smile, made me feel everything !! Especially when I was in middle school. No matter what phase in life I’ve been in, this song has found me. I still listen to it from time to time almost six years later.
It’s usually found in spotify playlists I meticulously crafted from 2018-2019, wedged comfortably between other tracks like Engine by Neutral Milk Hotel and New Flesh by the Current Joys. Oh how I miss this music ! I don’t miss most of middle school, but I wish I could hear a lot of this music for the first time again.
Dec 30, 2024
Yeah if it was May 2014, I’d be rec’ing not caring about your senior year finals, having a doubles partner in tennis that makes you laugh so hard you lose entire matches, riding in the beds of pickup trucks, listening to Alt-J and Wavves.
By June it would be: wearing a bathing suite out to every party, and ending up in a pool. By August: camping in Montauk and The Rolling Stones’ Moonlight Mile. By October: the Front Bottoms, Vulpeck’s My New Car, autumn in New England.
By December: drawing with charcoal and listening to Julian Casablancas’s Phrazes for the Young, but as a Christmas album 🎄
May 9, 2024
I actually have a running list of favorite albums that I keep in my phone because usually when somebody asks me what my favorite of anything is, my mind goes completely blank and I forget any media I have ever consumed.
This is an easy answer for me though, because I often say that this album imprinted on my little 14 year old soul. In general, I do feel that music from our teenage years sticks with us more than any other time. Probably something to do with where our whole beings are at developmentally. I’m sure someone has already looked into it.
This album is such a comfort to me, and feels so much like… me. I got to see the 20th anniversary tour of this album and the Postal Service with my sister and you best believe I cried the entire time.
Sep 16, 2024
