So, I don't know exactly how this works. I also don't know exactly what I'll use it for. I think I'll use it to ramble about music. I love music so much but I don't know many people with the same taste as me... so I don't have anyone to speak to or share it with. So I guess I'll let my thoughts roam free here.
My most recent obsession is Animal Collective. Feels and Sung Tongs are the only albums I've listened to in full thus far and I'm completely IN LOVE with both.
God, it's like, I really should just link the whole entire album. It's all so beautiful and fantastic. Dare I say life-altering? I will say it because I do believe this music IS changing my life. Maybe I'll make an in-depth post about every song on the album. They also just announced that they will be playing the full album at a venue in my city next month, just a few days after my birthday. Are you kidding me?
Who Could Win A Rabbit genuinely makes me excited to be alive. It lifts my spirits to the absolute max like Yes I Love You World. That's what I'm thinking and feeling when I listen to that track.
The best thing about being alive is discovering and rediscovering music. A year ago, I switched from Spotify to Apple Music after being on Spotify for about 5-6 years... But I think I want to switch over to an iPod or something eventually. I didn't really transfer over any of my playlists because there are literally hundreds and it would just take too long. Sometimes I find myself feeling a bit nostalgic, and I'll take a day to transfer a few of them. I rediscovered this one from 2022, and that's when my Animal Collective obsession started! Did You See the Words is a song I haven't revisited since then. 4 years later and it's suddenly one of the most magical songs that my ears have experienced!
It might be too early for me to fully explain or even have any real understanding of why this music resonates with me so much. I'm still chewing on it and still going through their discography. Letting it wash over me without any real thoughts. Letting it wash over me and just letting it take over my body really. It's all so brand new to me and so exciting. I know a lot of music but I don't know everything. I'm quite young so I'm still discovering things every single day... but actually I think this will just be the situation for the rest of my life because there is SO much music in the world. All this to say that I just haven't ever heard anything like this and my brain is in awe. The closest tunes I've heard to Animal Collective are maybethis Jack Stauber track or Eola? I can't think of anything else that falls into this realm. Jack Stauber might be a bit of a stretch.. I think the vocals are maybe a bit similar, no? If anything, at least in the sense that it demands you to jump around and dance! Eola is a bit similar in the weird vocals and sometimes chant-like melodies.
Letting it wash over me with ONE real thought! My one thought is that this music probably resonates with me so much because it feels otherworldly. I watched After Hours (1985) during crazy heat wave days. 95° in my apartment, wet rags on my body, 2 fans blowing on me, spraying my feet with water. I really had no choice but to melt into the dreamlike vibe of that movie. I like media that feels mysterious and unreal. Maybe I'm just in a period of my life (my early 20s, duh!) where it feels good to escape reality in whatever way I can. Falling deep into the magic, allowing myself to wander for however long, and returning to reality feeling not sad to be back, but revitalized and hopefully curious. I think the goal is always curiosity. Curiosity feels good.
Escaping through music is a bit different than escaping through a movie or a book. When I escape through books and movies, I'm inside of them. It's a total freeze. I'm not thinking about the past, present, or future. Music is an escape in the sense that I can think my life up to whatever I want it to be. Yesterday I was listening to Who Could Win a Rabbit on repeat and thinking mostly of the future and how beautiful it could be. Thinking of how beautiful the future could be helped me look around and appreciate my immediate surroundings. Accepting and loving my immediate surroundings and also knowing that it could all be different one day. Does that make sense?
I'm really excited to keep listening to Animal Collective. I'm excited to keep discovering and rediscovering music for the rest of my life. I don't know how to end a blog post.
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