#my palms and fingers still reek of gasoline!!! setting fuel to the fire of that greco-roman dream!!!

[mell0bee]

the oh hellos weren’t kidding. when the cold wind rolls in from the north what am i to do fr fr

[natcat5]

It’s 1979 and Disco’s never going to die.

An Exandria Unlimited Calamity playlist in preparation for Episode 4. Song order roughly reflects chronology of the show. 

Track list and explanations below the cut, for those who care about such things.

Episode 1 

Dark Doo Wop - Ms MR “The earth breaks, it falls and set your beat I find myself swallowed, drowning in your heat”

Zerxus’s Dream

24K Magic - R3hab Remix - Bruno Mars, R3HAB “Pop pop, it's show time Guess who's back again? Oh they don't know? (Go on tell 'em) I bet they know soon as we walk in”

The Ring of Brass in the glamour and glory of Avalir, City of Crowns, in the Age of Arcanum 

Primadonna - MARINA ”Living life like I'm in a dream I know I've got a big ego I really don't know why it's such a big deal, though”

The Ring of Brass in the glamour and glory of Avalir, City of Crowns, in the Age of Arcanum 

Ribs - Lorde “We can talk it so good We can make it so divine”

The Ring of Brass at the party, their friendship, and individual minor troubles 

King - Florence + the Machine “I need my golden crown of sorrow My bloody sword to swing My empty halls to echo with grand self-mythology”

Laerryn (and Patia a little bit)

Episode 2

Passerine - The Oh Hellos “My palms and fingers still reek of gasoline From throwing fuel to the fire of that Greco-Roman dream”

First hints of the coming Fall of the Age, and the possibility that the Ring of Brass might have something to do with it 

Dance on Our Graves - Paper Route  “I know the man I am is not who I should be The devil takes my hand, says child come with me”

Zerxus in the Hall of Prophecies

Cassandra - Acoustic - Florence + the Machine “Everything I thought I knew is falling out of view And if I run fast enough, could I break apart As empires tumble and cathedrals flatten in my heart?“

Nydas after hearing the prophecy

There’s A Storm Coming - Fahrenhaidt, Alice Merton “Oh there's a storm coming Oh hear the roar It's coming down”

Realization that there’s a genuine plot afoot in the city. Like, a bad one. 

Episode 3

Battle Cry - Angel Haze, Sia “Money cannot buy All the love that's here tonight It's just you and I” 

Ring of Brass against Dean Hollow and the Fiends. Specifically, how well RoB works as a team and how much they care about each other

Mourning Doves - Mikky Ekko “Look at how far we've come Look at this mess we've made”

Realization that they can’t land the city, and the way it impacts the team.

Dying in LA - Panic! At the Disco “Every face along the boulevard is a dreamer just like you You looked at death in a tarot card and you saw what you had to do”

I don’t know how to explain my rationale for this one. Something something the promise of Avalir as being a place where knowledge power and prestige are pursued at all cost. Something something Laerryn’s complete inability to give up on her Astral Leywright.

Ungodly Hour - The Fray “Her bag is now much heavier I wish that I could carry her But this is our ungodly hour”

The caelix. Could apply to all the characters kind of dealing with the worst situation they’ve ever been in, but could also be specifically Laerryn having to choose between her life’s work, Evandrin’s spirit, Quay and Patia and the damn tree. 

Girls Against God - Florence + the Machine “Oh God, you're gonna get it You'll be sorry that you messed with us”

Laerryn vs. Tree

Seven Devils - Florence + the Machine “Holy water cannot help you now Thousand armies couldn't keep me out”

Arrival of the Lord of Hells 

All the songs from here on out are speculation on how Episode 4 might go, so I won’t bother with explanations until after I’ve watched the episode and either affirmed or changed up my song list. 

[bookofjudith]

Who are The Oh Hellos???

anon.... u just opened the floodgates... 

they were my top artist of 2020 and i spent something like 10k hours listening to them which uh. probably says bad things about my mental health. let’s not dwell on that MOVING ON!! 

The Oh Hellos started as a sibling duo but is now a full ensemble folk band!! Their music is earnestly beautiful and profound, and their lyrics are chockful of biblical and literary and greco-roman mythological allusions, which, if you know me, makes me go bonkers fucking YONKERS. They occasionally get classified as a Christian band, but, uh, I’d call their stuff Christian music in the same way I’d call Sufjan Stevens or Hozier Christian Artists, as in, they ARE Christian/ write about Christian Things, and their faith influences their worldview, not in like a, christian radio station kind of way. if that makes sense. They literally write whatever the fuck they want and it somehow works?? they wrote an entire album based off of C.S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters (Dear Wormwood) and it GOES SO GODDAMN HARD!!! 

You’ve probably heard at least one of their popular songs, like Soldier, Poet, King, or Hello, My Old Heart but I don’t think those are even CLOSE to their best work. Here are some of my absolute all-time favorites from the oh hellos!

Like The Dawn  (you were the brightest shade of sunlight I’d ever seen/ your skin was gilded with the golds of the richest kings/ and like the dawn, you woke the world inside of me)

Passerine  (my palms and fingers still reek of gasoline/ from throwing fuel to the fire of that Greco-Roman dream)

Grow (let be what is, let be what isn’t/ it’s a natural world in which we’re living/ if you let it alone, it will surely grow/ just leave it alone, child, and let it go)

Hieroglyphs (if the heavens can be both sacred and dust, oh, maybe, so can the rest of us

The Lament of Eustace Scrubbs (I know that I have gone astray/ ‘cause when I saw my reflection/ it was a stranger beneath my face)

Boreas (I’m one spoon away/ from setting the ends of my hair on fire/ if I’m kindling for a little while/ at least I’ll feel of us)

ANYWAYS i’m sorry for the manifesto but if you wanna check them out, here’s my Oh Hellos playlist!