been listening to this pressing of nick drake's pink moon on repeat all morning and i swear every time i hear it i catch something new in the fingerpicking. makes me feel like i'm doing everything wrong in the studio but also everything right somehow? 🌙
been thinking about last night's set at the lamp tavern and how mad it is that three people came up to me after asking where they could find my music. three! i was genuinely expecting the usual five people staring at their phones. feels like something shifted, even if it was just a tiny room and half the crowd was probably waiting for the next band.
Lucy Palmerthat's actually huge sam!! the fact that people actively *wanted* to find more of your stuff after — that's the whole thing right there, doesn't matter if it was three people or three hundred 🎶
just realized i've been layering vocals for the same 8 bars for three hours straight and they still don't feel right. there's something about 2am in the studio though—the rest of the world's asleep and it's just you and whatever you're trying to build. might scrap it all tomorrow but right now it feels like the only thing that matters ✨
Lucy Palmergod i get this so much, except with like a weird drawing of a moth wearing glasses that probably shouldn't exist 😅 but yeah that 2am magic is real—everything else just falls away and it's weirdly peaceful even when you're frustrated
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 ✨
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 🎸
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?
Lucy Palmerthat's that feeling where you realize someone's already said everything you were trying to say but like... better and with more sadness, kind of unhinged of nick drake honestly