One of the first tracks I wrote while off at college. At my house when the AC kicks on the vents have this distinct smell which takes me all the back to my early youth, circa 1996. It is a sort of sweet smell, and constantly puts me back to this innocent and hopefully kind of mood.
But I then couple that with darker undertones of tragedy and trapped memories. Bittersweet is something that I'm huge on, that's why Maj7 chords are my favorite. I have this presumption that for every moment of our live, there exists an alternate universe in which a tangent us is trapped there for eternity. As we move forward in our lives, we create an infinite amount of tangent universes in which we exist in that moment forever. So I am haunted by both good and bad things, I find comfort and trouble in this idea of mine that for so long I've always held to be true. When I look at my basement, I see myself with old girlfriends on the couch, ghosts stuck in embrace, but also ghosts stuck in sorrow from breakups and whatnot. So while somewhere out there I'm still young and innocent, somewhere out there I'm still in the arms of my past girlfriends, and those copies of me exist in that embrace of happiness while I move forward consumed in anger and loneliness.
lyrics
Home, smelling the vents with the AC On,
Home, making out in the basement while the upstairs burns
pushing our faces into the carpet, sink in til we're gone, oh
Home.
I have a huge appreciation for texture, and sonic texture. This record's lo-fi is something so well felt, it's brilliant. I can't get over the one chord structured song, "How I spent my Summer." Heccra
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Any track from GFFLCL is a banger and this album was my intro to them. Love everything on it.
Really feels nostalgic just like watching FLCL all over again. イッキ