livin-for-frisson

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"And I don't wanna get in your way, but I finally think I can say that the vicious cycle was over the moment you smiled at me. And just like the rain, you cast the dust into nothing and wash out the salt from my hands. So touch me again. I feel my shadow dissolving. Will you cleanse me with pleasure?"

This band, man. I can't. Sleep Token hits so hard.

Have you ever tried to explain Sleep Token to someone? Okay so we have this band who wants to remain completely anonymous, and they see themselves as vessels who dedicate their lives to serving the god of Sleep. They wear masks to keep their identities secret and they perform in complete body paint and wear robes. Like from the outside, that all sounds ridiculous.

But they are one of the best bands I have ever listened to. They blend so many different genres beautifully together in their music. It would be impossible to neatly place them into a specific category. Their lyrics are phenomenal and so fucking smart. The emotion in every song is palpable.

I read a post somewhere that said Vessel sings in cursive. That's 100% accurate. Their songs transport you into a different dimension. They sing of love, heartache, astrology, alchemy, physics, technology, longing, worship. I am a sucker for intelligent lyricism, and Sleep Token delivers ever time. Every song has a least one line I would gladly tattoo on my body. I want to live in whatever world they've created.

Sleep Token - Rain

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"Don't you shut this down. Don't you give this up. Before you came around, I was lost and out of place. You're the only love I found and I'm hoping that you'll stay. Please stay." - "Only Love (Acoustic)", PVRIS

I love the simplicity and the heartache of this song. I also love when there's a build-up, when the music swells. You just know the lyrics that come immediately after are going to hit the hardest.

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You said, "My heart has changed, and my soul has changed, and my heart, and my heart...that my life has changed, that this town had changed, and you had not. That the world has changed. Don't you find it strange that you just went ahead and carried on?"

This song is a sucker punch to the gut. Honestly this entire album is a sucker punch. Noah writes with pure unfiltered honesty and has the nerve to layer folky guitar over brutal lyrics like it's nothing. You find yourself humming along to the plucky beat without stopping to digest what he's actually saying. I'm not gonna lie, most of the songs from this album will likely end up on this page at some point.

Also, as a fellow New Englander, there's something about his northern apathy that speaks to me.

One of my biggest regrets of the year was not seeing him play live when he came to my town.

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"I want to tell you everything, but everything just seems dumb."

"I got this Sunday baby, I want to spend it with you. We can do what you like. I promise that I'll be true."

Speaking of things I wish Spotify would add...I would love for them to add Childish Gambino's Culdesac mixtape from 2010. This album was my first introduction to Childish Gambino and I instantly fell in love. "Got This Money" was one of my favorite songs and I absolutely obsessed over this acoustic version. I went an entire summer with this album on repeat.

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"Take the man into the next room. Make him build you time machines and ferris wheels. We'll go back to when we had not met and then we'll meet again and you will see...what a perfect life we'd lead." "Time Machines, pt. 1" - Yellow Ostrich

I really wish that this song was available on Spotify. It's one of my favorites of theirs! There are so many good lyrics in this song. I'm a sucker for a song that has a cello!

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"To come to your aid means that I'd have to change too." "Maybe I lied and I liked it. Maybe I lied."

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"The Tide" - The Spill Canvas

The first song that I ever remember actually giving me goosebumps. I distinctly remember the first time I heard it: 16 years old, sitting in my bright yellow bedroom, procrastinating going to bed. It's a sad, fucked up song about a woman who is so swept up in her own depression and heartbreak that she doesn't notice when her three children drown while playing in the ocean.

There are so many good lyrics in this song:

"Heaven's not a place that you go when you die. It's that moment in life when you touch her and you feel alive. So live for the moment."

"And he can't understand how everyone goes on breathing when true love ends."

But what really got me was the last minute of the song, when the music swells, and you find out that the three children have died: "And she didn't even notice or pay much attention as the tide came in and swept her three into the ocean. Now all her good advice, it seems useless."

Ugh, so good.

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Hello! Welcome to my music blog! I am a lover of all music. I love getting goosebumps when I hear a song for the first time and I’m always chasing that feeling. For me, it’s usually caused by amazing lyrics or the swell of music during a tempo change. I want to be all in my feelings when I listen to music. I want lyrics so good that I instantly want to tattoo them on my body so that I can remember them forever. I want to burrow myself into the beat and live inside of a song—let it play on repeat until it becomes a part of me.

This blog is going to be random. It’s going to be chaotic. It will be a dumping ground of every song that evokes a visceral reaction from me.

Come along for the ride and enjoy my life in lyrics. Hopefully you get goosebumps too!