#lush and makeout creek are where my heart is

[old-stoneface]

AAARRRRGGHHHH new mitski song is dropping on wednesday and she has a new album coming out soon (coughing and wiping sweat off my brow and passing out) and the new album name is so long, im so happy, i love the poetry of long song and album titles

[yeonshy]

८. ･ ͙．m͟i͟t͟s͟k͟i͟ u͟s͟e͟r͟n͟a͟m͟e͟s͟ ᰍ ｡ ͘ ᳞ ✽

stealvrth -> "i steal a few breaths from the world for a minute" (me and my husband / be the cowboy)

nothing4evr -> "and then i'll be nothing, forever" (me and my husband / be the cowboy)

goneeys -> "all of the things i have see will be gone, with my eyes, with my body, with me" (me and my husband / be the cowboy)

i94mloved -> "but when he walks in, i am loved, i am loved" (me and my husband / be the cowboy"

sounds0fppl -> "my god, i'm so lonely, so i open the window, to hear sounds of people" (nobody / be the cowboy)

venusofluv -> "venus, planet of love, was destroyed by global warming" (nobody / be the cowboy)

someone2kiss -> "and i know no one will save me, i just need someone to kiss" (nobody / be the cowboy)

nobody-wntsme -> "i've been big and small, and big and small, and big and small again, and still nobody wants me" (nobody / be the cowboy)

stillnbdy -> "i've been big and small, and big and small, and big and small again, and still nobody wants me" (nobody / be the cowboy)

w-macheart -> "toss your dirty shoes in my washing machine heart, baby bang it up inside" (washing machine heart / be the cowboy)

usualips -> "i'm not wearing my usual lipstick, i though maybe we would kiss tonight" (washing machine heart / be the cowboy)

pr93tend -> "baby, though i've closed my eyes, i know who you pretend i am" (washing machine heart / be the cowboy)

why90tme -> "do mi ti, why not me?" (washing machine heart / be the cowboy)

domitie -> "do mi ti, why not me?" (washing machine heart / be the cowboy)

1stlove-l8spring -> (first love / late spring / bury me at makeout creek)

blackho0le -> "the black hole of the window where you sleep" (first love / late spring / bury me at makeout creek)

peachbreeze -> "the night breeze carries something sweet, a peach tree" (first love / late spring / bury me at makeout creek)

n-ightsky -> "and i don't wanna go home, let me walk to the top of the big night sky" (first love / late spring / bury me at makeout creek)

pr93ttyalive -> "if i'm not pretty i don't know how to be alive" (brand new city / lush)

brndnewcity -> "i should move to a brand new city and teach myself how to die" (brand new city / lush)

ho0neyw -> "honey, what'd you take?" (brand new city / lush)

pll-medown -> "i feel like the ground is pulling me down" (brand new city / lush)

ro0ttingbrain -> "i think my brain is rotting in places" (brand new city / lush)

01card -> "i want you, i hold one card that i can't use, but i want you" (i want you / retired from sad, new career in business)

ilyydarling -> "we're starting over, and i love you darling, and i am done, dear" (i want you / retired from sad, new career in business)

hrinthe-c -> "you're in the house and i am here in the car" (i want you / retired from sad, new career in business)

quietplace -> "i just need a quiet place where i can scream how i love you" (i want you / retired from sad, new career in business)

windyafterno0n -> "it's a windy afternoon, can't afford to buy my food" (jobless monday / bury me at makeout creek)

takeme0ut -> "so take me out baby, doesn't matter where we'll be" (jobless monday / bury me at makeout creek)

p-inkinthenight -> "i glow pink in the night in my room" (pink in the night / be the cowboy)

bl-ssoming -> "i've been blossoming alone over you" (pink in the night / be the cowboy)

heartbreak2n -> "and i hear my heart breaking tonight, i hear my heart breaking tonight ooh, do you hear it too?" (pink in the night / be the cowboy)

summershowe-r -> "it's like a summer shower, with every drop of rain singing 'i love you, i love you, i love you'" (pink in the night / be the cowboy)

mo0rningstar -> "so let me walk towards the morning star, with hopes it won't dissapear" (wife / lush)

fluorescents -> "fluorescent store lights, you shine through the night" (bag of bones / lush)

feelsgo0d -> "they're right outside the door and they don't know how it feels so good" (shame / retired from sad, new career in business)

3amwritin-g -> "but i'm writing this at 3 AM" (francis forever / bury me at makeout creek)

sunli-gap -> "on sunny days i go out walking, i end up on a tree lined street, i look up at the gaps of sunlight, i miss you more than anything" (francis forever / bury me at makeout creek)

inlove-withwar -> "it's just that i fell in love with a war" (a pearl / br the cowboy)

pearlevrn -> "nobody told me it ended, and it left a pearl in my hand, and i roll it around every night just to watch it glow" (a pearl / be the cowboy)

[burnt-ghost-toast]

Mitski Lyric Starters pt.2

*lyrics from Retired From Sad, New Career In Business (2013)

Lush | Retired From Sad, New Career In Business | Bury Me At Makeout Creek | Puberty 2 | Be The Cowboy | Laurel Hell

Retired From Sad , New Career In Business .

Goodbye , My Danish Sweetheart

‘ there's nobody better than you ’

‘ it took me a while till i knew ’

‘ i don't blame you if you want to bury me in your memory , i'm not the girl i ought to be ’

‘ maybe when you tell your friends , you can tell them what you saw in me , and not how i turned out to be ’

‘ it's kept me from falling apart ’

‘ would you just tell me what i'm meant to do ? ’

Shame

‘ it feels so good ’

‘ i never was very good ’

‘ i haven’t been so good ’

‘ right outside the door nobody knows ’

Because Dreaming Costs Money , My Dear

‘ the smoke still hangs in my hair ’

‘ darling , play your violin ’

‘ we will manage somehow ’

‘ bring me to your ear , you can hear the tide where i used to be , though now i'm but a shell ’

‘ don't say sorry ’

‘ don't dare regret anything ’

Humpty

‘ it's all that i need ’

‘ the room is now empty , nothing left to throw ’

‘ all the eggshells are on the ground ’

‘ it’s all too much . too frail for me to touch ’

‘ i broke what you gave me , but you kept giving more ’

‘ i'm sorry for taking , but i keep wanting more ’

Circle

‘ there’s a lie that i told to you ’

‘ one soft drunken night ’

‘ in the morning i walked home alone ’

‘ you told me once you were happy to have me , but i never gave me away ’

‘ i would give you my heart , i think ’

‘ put my heart where i couldn't reach ’

‘ i didn't mind , i adored him so ’

‘ nobody knows my lover is buried underground ’

I Want You

‘ i want you ’

‘ it's the end of the world we're starting over ’

‘ i love you , darling ’

‘ i just need a quiet place where i can scream ’

‘ i found you ’

‘ when i stepped through there was no floor ’

Square

‘ and i wondered what space would i take in the order you kept ’

‘ lying awake , i would follow the aching inside ’

‘ god's very simple and love shouldn't burn ’

‘ i would've offered you all that you yearned for ’

‘ maybe it's all of these snowflakes , screaming . a choir of mute as they brace for the ground ’

‘ you know , you made me happy ’

‘ never once did you know me ’

‘ maybe you offered me all that i yearned for ’

‘ silly me , waiting ’

Strawberry Blond

‘ because i love you ’

‘ and the grass where you lay left a bed in your shape . i looked over it and i ached ’

‘ all i need , darling , is a life in your shape . i picture it , soft and i ache ’

‘ you tell me you love her i give you a grin ’

‘ can you hear the bumblebees swarm ? ’

‘ i love it when you look my way ’

Class of 2013

‘ can i sleep in your house tonight ? ’

‘ is it alright if i stay for a year or two ? ’

‘ this once , and then we can forget ’

‘ can i dream for a few months more ? ’

[kucigloss]

TOP 10 albums of the decade

Hello folks! 

The year is coming to a close, and I felt it necessary to share my top 10 favorite albums of the decade. It was so hard to narrow it down to only 10 but ultimately, I went with the albums that stuck with me the most during the most formative years of my life. I’m excited to see what my 20s will be like, soundtracked by new music of the 2020s. Let me know what your favorites were!

beach house - depression cherry (2015)

This album made my xx-loving, emo/indie girl lifestyle feel so validated. Beach House songs tend to have a certain air of nostalgia, melancholy and hopefulness, but the airy, unique tracks on Depression Cherry are in an emotional universe of its own.

Faves: 10:37, Space Song, PPP

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the garden – haha (2015)

The Garden was my favorite band for the first half of high school. Every single album they put out creates a new ethos, with the Shears twins’ method acting supporting it all the way through. The Vada Vada universe was made whole when haha came out (I'm also probably biased because I was at their album release show lol). This is one of their most defining albums as an act that is constantly breaking molds and standards. Although that sounds contradictory, haha truly set the Garden apart as a band slightly outside of the “Burger Records” scene forming around that time, materializing the Vada Vada aesthetic into our dimension.

Faves: This House Can Build a Home, Crystal Clear, Gift

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death grips – the money store (2012)

Death Grips was my favorite band for the second half of high school. MC ride's gritty vocals/screaming paired with Andy and Zach's tight musicianship has been what makes death grips so powerful, album after album. This release in particular employs a more synthy-electronic vibe to its tracks, which may make it more accessible, but also more unique among their discography. 

Faves: Hustle Bones, Hacker, The Fever (Aye Aye)

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US Girls - in a poem unlimited (2018)

Every track on this album makes me want to dance. The sensual vocals over the vintage-tinged instrumentals make US Girls a go-to for me. Some tracks go super hard while others are more sensitive; but either track you choose to listen to will make you feel like a badass.

Faves: M.A.H., Incidental Boogie, L-Over

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japanese breakfast - soft sounds from another planet (2017)

This beautiful and heartfelt album takes me back to my early college days, when I first started up at KUCI! Michelle Zauner’s emotional traumas are exposed in her first release Psychopomp, which was meant to be her only album. After some growth and learning, though, this album was created and showcases an evolution; it explores the same themes of mortality, fame, and love through a more mature angle, without compromising her child-like raw emotionalism.  

Faves: Diving Woman, Road Head, Machinist, Boyish

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parquet courts - wide awake! (2018)

Political, poetic and emotional, Wide Awake! is a study of masculinity, relationships, and war in a weirdly fluorescent light (their album cover is the most fitting one I've ever seen). Andrew Savage is just a genuine dude with a shy aloofness that makes his scream signing all the more endearing. They use cowbells and talk about Alan Turing-- what else could I ask for?

Faves: Before the Water Gets Too High, Almost Had to Start a Fight/In and Out of Patience, Normalisation, Wide Awake

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french vanilla - french vanilla (2017)

This album changed my mind about riot grrl. Although their music is a bit more organized, almost neurotically, and much more instrumentally formal, French Vanilla takes the wailing vocals and angry lyrics the riot grrl genre was partly known for and made a beast of it's own. I love them.

Faves: Honesty, Carrie, Evolution Heavy Handed

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little dragon - ritual union (2011)

Little Dragon was one of those bands along with Crystal Castles, Blonde Redhead and others, that were the foundation of my music taste during the formative years of my life. I can’t explain more about the album without spoiling it; it’s just a lovely journey to take.  

Faves: Little Man, Brush the Heat, Shuffle a Dream, Crystalfilm

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khruangbin - the universe smiles upon you (2015)

Call it easy listening for hipsters if you want, but Khruangbin is one of the few bands I know where I can truthfully say I like every single track they put out. Their energy is infectious and seeing them live changed me for the better!

Faves: Dern Kala, White Gloves People Everywhere (Still Alive)

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mitski - bury me at makeout creek (2014)

Although Retired from Sad, New Career in Business holds a very special place in my heart, Mitski's junior release, Bury Me at Makeout Creek, is one of Mitski's most powerful and vulnerable albums. Her exploration of genre, sound, and identity are tangible, though admittedly not as much as her art school debut, Lush. Every track still experiments with poetry and taps into a new wound, but she sounds more confident in herself this time around. Where her sophomore album was a piano-ridden set of ballads, this album is much heavier with bass-heavy love songs, leaving listeners with a distinctly different taste in their mouths. Her Joni Mitchell-esque mania makes me cry and dance just the right amount. Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful.

Faves: Townie, First Love/Late Spring, Francis Forever, I Dont Smoke, Drunk Walk Home, Last Words of a Shooting Star... so like all of them (oh and Class of 2013 from Retired from Sad belongs here too, same energy)

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honorable mentions: 

show me the body - body war (2016) I officially became a cool e-kid when I went to my first show me the body show. Their new album is great too, but this ones a classic. (Listen to Tight SWAT when you’re angry, or not angry enough).

autolux – PUSSY’S DEAD (2016) This genre-defying album was the soundtrack to the end of my high school career. Every moody lyric and punchy drum beat had me feeling like Bella Swan in the second half of Twilight.

sasami – SASAMI (2019) I'm so very moved by every heart wrenching song on this album. That’s all.

Kadhja Bonet - Childqueen (2018) Beautiful neo-soul with a classic edge.

MGMT – Little Dark Age (2018) One of the best comeback albums ever. 

Anderson .Paak – all of his releases He was my top artist of 2019, whoops.

[familiarplace]

ok heres my top albums. yes i am insufferable to talk to about music

in order its: bury me at makeout creek, twin fantasy, hospice, ys, carrie and lowell, puberty 2, illinois, pure heroine, a man alive, get disowned, teens of denial, have one on me, be the cowboy, divers, the sunset tree, sound of silver, historian, soft sounds from another planet, hozier, flood, contra, a seat at the table, melodrama, moonlight soundtrack, seven swans, old world underground where are you now, retired from sad new career in buisness, little dark age, merriweather post pavillion, lush, lush (yes thats two different albums with the same name), american dream, this is happening, for emma forever ago, channel orange, nostalgia ultra, oh my heart, funeral, reflektor, transatlaticism, masseducation, hot fuss