Music Recommendations

29/05/24: I found Welles through the lead's newer acoustic stuff like most others, but I've been really enjoying their music on its own. Hold Me Like I'm Leaving  is my current favorite of theirs, and for pretty predictable reasons. I love a good repetitive lyric, and the theme about feeling unfulfilled in life and love is always bound to stick with me.
I obviously also like the sound of it, being pretty slow in tempo while still keeping it heavy. Jesse's voice is really unique, even compared to similarly gravelly vocalists. It brings great charm to it, in my opinion.

06/04/24: I can't believe I haven't put this song on here yet? I guess I found it when I didn't feel like posting. Anyway.
This one is... so good... It's kinda weird, and the half-butchered official translation doesn't help. I still love it though, and listen to it on repeat a lot. It's got themes of self-discovery and uncertainty, and the comment by usoppfangirl8153 brings some really good context forward, as well as some nice theories.
The screaming towards the end while the music gets more and more chaotic is part of what I've really enjoyed about Abu-Se's recent, more experimental stuff, and I'm happy this is the direction he took with this song. I feel like the experimental stuff really enhances it.

06/04/24: I've been a fan of Mitski since... 2016-ish? I'm Your Man  is probably one of the few (if not the only) newer song of hers that I find myself listening to when I feel vulnerable. There's just something about the choir mixing with the sound of dogs barking that makes it stick out from a lot of her other stuff. It gives it the same vibe as a lot of her older albums have, I feel.
The lyric "You believe me like a God, I betray you like a man" will always feel so... immense? It's so very something and I don't know how to explain it.

07/03/24: This one's a recent find, but a clear new favorite of mine. I really like this song and the entire vibe it comes with. The grainy quality of the song (and the music video) makes it feel like a timeless classic, but it's surprisingly recent. When I first clicked on the video, I had no idea what to expect other than something maybe gothic? But I was honestly really pleasantly surprised to find out it was something more psychedelic and dreamy. It's a bit different from my usual stuff, but I think Cry For Me  would suit a wide range of tastes, to be honest. I recommend listening to it when you're a bit sleep deprived and woozy. Makes it hit different.

15/01/24: Leech Boy  by Crywank was one of my favorite songs back when I was... 15? 16? I was real depressed at the time, and the facade I'd tried to keep up was starting to slip. I sung along to it while relating to every single word, as if it was taken straight out of my own heart. I haven't listened to it in a very long time, but it felt right to put it here. I hope this one doesn't speak to you as much as it used to do to me.
The lines "For if I can recognize my flaws, you'll assume I'm trying to change, but I am lazy and disheartened, and I know I will remain the same." will forever stay unbearably close to me.

15/01/24: Keeping on the Crywank streak, here's one that speaks to me in the current day. I Am Shit  perfectly summarizes my daily struggles to an uncomfortable degree. It's the feeling of being depressed and anxious when life is otherwise going well, the guilt that suffering comes with when there's no source to it. Feeling like you're not doing enough, but the little you're doing is wearing you thin. It's weird how I'll find a different song every few years from Crywank that perfectly mirrors how I feel at the moment.

15/01/24: Final one of the Crywank spam for now, A Deer Mistaking Candles for Headlights  was my favorite back when I was 17-ish, although I feel like it's always been pretty spot-on for me. Feeling passive and like a people pleaser to a fault is probably something most people can relate to, and the added lyrics about hiding who you really are in an attempt to do as little harm as possible (and thus, causing harm in a different way) obviously speaks to me a lot. The line "You see who I am and that scares me" speaks volumes in itself.

06/01/24: Despite this being "The angriest song [he has] ever written" according to Thom Yorke, it's also one of the gentlest sounding ones, in my opinion. My favorite part is the simple lyric "little baby's eyes, eyes, eyes, eyes" repeated. The way he sings it almost makes me shiver.
I really like both the anti-war message behind it, and the powerful lyrics combined with the soft guitar. I Will  is one of my favorite Radiohead songs, and always will be.

06/01/24: This is one of the songs that really encouraged me to get better at playing bass in the beginning. I think I first heard it when my brother's band played a cover of it at a concert I was at. I've always loved the sound of the instrumentals, and the lyrics that I never really understood until I actually did some research recently. The lyrics don't mean all that much to me now, although in a roundabout way I can relate to them anyway. That's the power of vague lyrics, I guess.