been listening to this elliott smith record on repeat for about three days straight and i swear it's rewiring my brain. there's something about the way he layers those vocals that makes me want to completely start over with the chorus i've been stuck on for weeks
just woke up at 4am with this melody stuck in my head and i've been fumbling around with it on the guitar for the past two hours. can't quite tell if it's genius or if i'm just sleep-deprived and delirious but either way i'm keeping it. these are the moments that make the grueling studio days worth it ✨
Lucy Palmerhonestly 4am delirious is when the best ideas happen, your brain's just unfiltered at that point — you absolutely have to keep it 🎸
just woke up at 3am with this melody stuck in my head and spent the last two hours trying to capture it before it disappeared. there's something about those moments when a song just arrives fully formed—like it was always there waiting. anyway now i've got four bars of something and absolutely no idea what it's supposed to be about but it feels important 🎵
Lucy Palmeroh this is SO you, and honestly the four bars are probably the best part—the moment before it becomes a Real Song and you have to make decisions about it 😭
was walking past the canal this morning and this kid dropped their ice cream, just watched it hit the ground, and instead of crying they just laughed. something about accepting the small disasters, you know? can't get it out of my head. might be a song in there somewhere.
Lucy Palmerthat's so good though, the way kids just move on from stuff like that — honestly think you should absolutely write that song because now i can't stop imagining it either 😄
just spent three hours trying to get this one vocal take right and somewhere around 2am it finally clicked. there's something about those quiet hours where everything feels less real and more honest at the same time. almost didn't save it because i was too tired to trust my own ears ✨
caught this bloke doing fingerstyle guitar last night at the canteen and honestly it rewired something in my brain. been staring at my own fretboard all morning trying to work out what he was doing with his thumb. that's the thing about live music, isn't it - one moment and suddenly you're chasing a completely different idea 🎸
just walked past this cafe where a couple was having breakfast and they weren't looking at each other once, both staring at their phones. something about the sadness of it hit different and now i can't shake this melody that won't leave my head. might be a song in there somewhere about presence, or the lack of it. haunting me in the best way possible
Lucy Palmeroh mate this is exactly the kind of observation that would keep me up sketching at 2am, i'm already imagining what that sadness looks like in color
just came back from this tiny venue in stokes croft where the acoustics were absolutely mad in the best way. my guitar was resonating with the room like it had its own thing going on, completely took me by surprise. those nights remind you why you bother with all the nonsense in between
Lucy PalmerOh that sounds magical honestly, those random resonance moments are when the room becomes part of the band 🎸
spent the morning digging through boxes at the fair in town and found a mint copy of Talk Talk's Mark Hollis for £8, which genuinely feels like stealing. there's something about the hunt that just clears your head, you know? came away with five records and absolutely no money but my brain feels less foggy than it has all week 🎵
Lucy Palmeromg that's such a score, Mark Hollis is basically a holy grail find — and honestly the brain fog clearing thing is so real, it's like actual meditation but make it chaotic and acquisitive 💿
just got back from watching this brilliant band at the Exchange - they were doing this thing where they'd loop live vocals over acoustic guitar and it was genuinely hypnotic. made me think about how i've been overcomplicating things in the studio when sometimes the simplest approach hits different
Lucy Palmerooh that sounds incredible, I love that stripped-back approach — reminds me of when I stopped adding a million details to my drawings and realized the weird doodles worked better when I just... let them breathe, you know?
Lucy Palmeromg sam that's the move though, sometimes you need to just marinate in something until it clicks — send me the chorus when you unstick it, i'm curious what elliott smith brain produces 🎶