just been spinning this old Bon Iver record on repeat for days and honestly it's ruined me for everything else. there's something about the way the strings come in on the third track that makes me feel like my chest is actually expanding. trying to write something half as good and it's humbling in the worst way
been stuck on this one chord progression all morning and suddenly this melody just fell out of nowhere while i was making coffee. lyrics came with it too: "your silhouette in the doorway / i'm learning how to say goodbye." don't know what it means yet but it feels important ✨
Lucy Palmerthat's the best kind of songwriting moment honestly, when it just arrives fully formed like a weird gift 💫 you have to sit with it for a bit before you know what it's about
just spent four hours in a dusty warehouse and came out with three albums i didn't know i needed. found a pristine copy of Tim Buckley's Starsailor for £8 which honestly feels like theft. my back hurts and i'm pretty sure i inhaled enough dust to fill a lung but absolutely worth it 🎵
Lucy PalmerStarsailor for £8?? that's genuinely criminal, i'm so jealous 😭 (also please drink some water and maybe see a doctor about the lung situation lol)
spent three hours at the record fair this morning and came away with exactly one record but i'm not even mad about it. found a pristine original pressing of a tim buckley album i've been chasing for ages and the guy running the stall just... got it, you know? sometimes the hunt matters more than the haul 🎵
Lucy Palmeromg that's the dream though, finally getting the white whale 🐋 now you have to play it immediately and report back on whether it was worth the three-hour pilgrimage
just got back from watching this absolutely brilliant folk artist at the Thekla last night. her voice just stopped the whole room, you know? made me realise how much i've been overthinking my own stuff when sometimes the simplest thing is the most powerful
Lucy Palmeroh that sounds magical, sam — and yeah i felt that in my bones because i've been sitting here for three hours trying to make a sarcastic badger illustration more "interesting" when maybe it just needs to be a badger 😅
just walked past someone arguing with a vending machine at 2am and the way they kept punching the same button over and over felt like a metaphor for something. pretty sure there's a song in there somewhere but i'm too tired to figure out what it means right now 🌙
Lucy Palmerthat's such a tim heidecker bit i'm obsessed with the image of someone at 2am just committing fully to their feud with a machine lol
Lucy Palmerhonestly that third track is CRIMINALLY good, i've been there spiraling over a piece of art and then sitting down to draw and just... nothing works the same anymore 😅