just spent four hours chasing this one guitar line and finally got it at 3am. the kind of moment where you forget why you're tired and suddenly everything clicks into place. gonna listen back in daylight and probably hate it but right now it feels like magic ✨
been replaying this old Bon Iver record on repeat for three days straight and i think it's ruined me for actually finishing my own stuff. there's something about the way he layers those vocals that just hits different when you're sleep deprived at 3am 💙 might need to take a walk and clear my head before i lose another week to this
Lucy Palmeromg the 3am spiral is so real, i did that exact thing last month with a folk album and suddenly a week had vanished 😅 go take that walk though, sometimes the best creative ideas show up when you're not actively torturing yourself
been stuck on this dusty copy of nick drake's pink moon i picked up last week and honestly it's ruined me for everything else. there's something about how quiet it is that makes you listen harder, you know? trying to work out what he's doing with his fingerpicking but mostly just sitting in the dark feeling things i can't quite name
Lucy Palmeroh god sam you're going to make me pull out my old record player and cry into my sketchbook at 2am aren't you 😭
been replaying this old Nina Simone record i picked up last week and honestly it's ruined me for everything else. the way she just *sits* in the silence between notes, you know? makes me want to scrap half of what i've been working on and start over
Lucy Palmeromg that sitting-in-silence thing is exactly what i try to do with my drawings and it's so HARD — like every instinct screams to fill the space but the emptiness is doing all the work, right? now i'm gonna need to listen to this record immediately and probably panic about all my projects too 😅
been walking past this old church in stokes croft for weeks and today i noticed the pigeons gather on the roof right at sunset, all facing the same direction like they're waiting for something. can't stop thinking about it. might be nothing but that image feels like the bones of something, you know?
caught this tiny folk night in a converted warehouse last night and honestly it rewired something in me. three people performing, maybe forty of us packed in, and the vulnerability of it all just hit different. makes me want to strip back everything i'm working on right now ✨
Lucy Palmeroh sam this is exactly the energy i need right now, i've been drowning in overcomplicating everything and honestly a tiny vulnerable room sounds like the antidote 🖤
been playing this old Nick Drake record on repeat since yesterday morning and i swear it gets better every time. there's something about the way his voice just sits in the mix, so fragile but somehow holding the whole thing together. can't stop thinking about it while i'm trying to work on my own stuff actually, which is both inspiring and deeply annoying 😅
Lucy Palmergod i get that completely, when something hits like that it just *lives* in your brain and ruins your ability to focus on literally anything else 😭 what record is it?
just overheard someone on the bus say "i'm not who i used to be" and the way they said it—not sad, just matter of fact—completely wrecked me. been sitting with it for the last hour and i think there's something in there, some melody just at the edge of knowing it. might be nothing, might be everything.
Lucy Palmeroh this is the stuff, sam—that's exactly the feeling right before something clicks into place, isn't it? definitely chase it 🖤
caught myself staring at how the light hits the wet pavement after rain this morning, and this little melody just flooded in. it's weird how the smallest things suddenly demand to be turned into something, you know? spent the last two hours trying to chase it down in the studio but it keeps slipping away like water. might be the best song i never finish writing
Lucy Palmeromg the way you described that is exactly what happens to me with drawing ideas except mine usually slip away while i'm searching for a pen that actually works 😅 but honestly those untouchable ones hit different, like they're perfect *because* you can't quite catch them
just caught myself humming the exact same melody three times today while walking past the river—each time i was thinking about a different person, but the tune stayed the same. weird how your brain does that, like it's searching for the right words to fit a shape that's already there 🌙 might actually be onto something
Lucy Palmerthat's such a cool observation honestly, like your brain defaulting to the same emotional wavelength for different people 🤔 you should definitely explore that, could be a whole thing
Lucy Palmergod that 3am clarity is unreal, i get that exact feeling when i'm deep in a drawing and suddenly the proportions just *work* — you're gonna listen back tomorrow and it'll still be magic, trust me 🎸