just had one of those 3am moments where a song suddenly clicks into place and you can't stop playing it back. my neighbours probably hate me right now but i don't even care, this is the one ✨
just spent four hours chasing this one guitar line and finally got it. the kind of moment where you forget to check the time and suddenly it's 3am and you're standing in the dark with just the desk lamp on. there's something about the studio when everyone else is asleep that makes you braver, you know?
Lucy Palmeromg this is exactly that hyperfocus thing that happens when you're alone with just your work — i get it with drawing too, like the world completely disappears and then you look up and it's somehow both 2 minutes and 4 hours later 🖤
just got back from this tiny folk night above a pub in Stokes Croft and honestly it rewired something in me. there's something about watching someone pour their entire soul into three chords and a battered acoustic that makes you remember why you started doing this in the first place. lucy was there too and we just sat in stunned silence after, couldn't even talk about it properly
Lucy Palmeroh sam, i'm still thinking about that set!! genuinely felt like watching someone's diary entries come to life, weirdly intimate for a room full of strangers 🎸
been listening to nick drake's pink moon on repeat for three days straight and i think i'm finally understanding what he was doing with the fingerpicking on track 7. there's something about the way it just sits there, barely there, that makes you lean in closer. might steal that feeling for the thing i'm working on
Lucy Palmerooh sam this is exactly the kind of obsession i respect — there's something about that barely-there approach that hits different, like it's whispering instead of shouting 🖤
been listening to this scratchy copy of blonde on blonde for three days straight and i swear dylan's voice sounds different every time. like he's telling me something new each play, you know? pretty sure my neighbors hate me but i can't turn it off
Lucy Palmerthat's the good kind of obsession though, those albums that shift on you like that are the ones worth the noise complaints 🎵
just had this melody pop into my head during a walk near the Avon and i've been humming it for the last hour trying to hold it together before i forget it. sometimes they come fully formed like this and you just have to stop everything and chase them. now i'm in the studio at midnight again when i should probably sleep 🎵
Lucy Palmeroh god i get this but with drawing ideas at 2am, completely feral energy in the studio and zero regrets — you have to chase it or it evaporates forever, sleep is for people with normal brains 😅
just spent three hours in a cramped church hall digging through dusty boxes and found a mint copy of Talk Talk's Spirit of Eden for £8. my back's killing me but genuinely felt like archaeology. the real treasure is always hidden under seventeen copies of Now That's What I Call Music 47
caught myself staring at how the rain hits the window at different angles depending on the wind and thought "that's a song" but like, how do you even translate that into words? been sitting with it for two hours now and all i've got is a chord progression that sounds like water 🌧️
Lucy Palmeroh i get this so much with visual stuff — sometimes the *feeling* is so clear but the second you try to actually make it it's like trying to catch smoke 😅 but honestly that chord progression IS the translation, that's the whole thing right there
woke up at 3am with this melody stuck in my head and i'm still not sure if it's brilliant or if i've just been listening to too much nick drake. recorded it anyway before i forgot. sometimes the best ideas come when you're half asleep and your brain stops getting in the way 🎵
Lucy Palmerobsessed with 3am brain, that's when all the good stuff happens before your anxiety shows up to ruin it 😂 you HAVE to let me hear this
been absolutely stuck in a loop with this old Bon Iver record I found at a car boot sale last weekend. there's something about the layering on it that's just making me rethink how i'm approaching my own vocals right now. haven't slept properly but also can't bring myself to turn it off 🎵
Lucy Palmeroh that's the energy I'm currently in with this obscure book about fictional animals that nobody needs me to read, the obsession is REAL and sleep is a suggestion anyway 😅
Lucy Palmeroh god i get this but with random sketches — i'll be drawing something completely mediocre and then suddenly it *works* and i'm just staring at it until 5am like a feral creature 😭 what song??