Dame, Terror Pigeon, Halina Heron, The Eye See You’s, and Insomnia Beach Club are some personal faves! and you know what? i’m gonna talk. about ‘em because i love these bands and songs and i want you to maybe check em out.
(fave track: Don’t Wreck Your Head)
i found Dame not too long ago and i’m not actually sure how. i remember hearing Brilliant first, and i really loved the desperate and heartless lustful vibe of it before discovering the rest of the album was actually deeply emotionally resonant, lots of songs about familial love and complication. they released one album in 2004 and then vanished entirely. i’m itching to burn a cd of them, just in case. also, i would later find out ND Stevenson of Nimona, She-ra, and Scarlet Morning fame has Don’t Wreck Your Head on his Adora playlist, and Brilliant on his Scarlet Morning playlist. i wonder how he found the band…
Terror pigeon i discovered through someone else’s playlist, and Girl! hit me like a freight train when i first heard it. the very long constant building excitement and sincerity and love throughout the song, and the mantra repeated of “there’s nothing about you i won’t love” over a cacophony of sound makes the whole thing feel explosive in it’s love. every time i listen to it i can feel the almost cosmic truths bursting from this song. i can see a montage of a decade of love playing over everything in this song. one day, i’ll make a love letter to fandom in the form of an AMV.
the Yawhg introduced me to so much of the art i love the most, and Halina Heron’s music is some of the first guitar i’ve ever learned. (Oceans) simple guitar-piano-vocal combo sold me on the feeling of the song so immediately, and so viscerally, the lingering feeling of a nightmare about a close relation tinting how you feel about that person, even though you’re conscious and awake. the game is also a delight, it’s 10 dollars on steam, please go play it if you have the chance, the gameplay is incredible and the art (by E.M. Carroll) really lends such a unique and specific tone that i’ve never quite found anywhere else.
while on a bad date after being too late to go to an x-files themed drag show, i was drinking at a tavern near me. some other bands played, and they were pretty damn good, but when The Eye See You’s took the stage i was in total awe at how good the music was, everything felt so right and i forgot about all the dumb shit that led me there. when i woke up the next day covered in bruises feeling like i died, later learning i stumbled home with the assistance of my BFF, i hungered desperately to find the band but i couldn’t remember the name. i rewatched the shaky videos on my phone trying to find anything that might help. eventually, i found them and threw money at them instantly. a banger mix of psychedelia, rock, and power pop.
so, this band eluded me for a very long time. i had listened to 58 & Rainy back in high school, i think after stumbling onto one of their vlogs? i didn’t watch vlogs so i still don’t know how i found it. anyways, this song scored some of my most gender envious days, and im not sure still what about it specifically did so. anyways, i actoually couldn’t find this song again after they removed it from apple music (i was in high school, sue me) and i found their song Staring At The Sun shortly after, and was resigned to never hearing this song again, but then just now while looking for their music, i found it again! so now here it is for everyone to enjoy. i haven’t heard this song in seven years and im instantly transported back to 2019, schools almost out for the summer and im skateboarding around not sure about my body. cool to find it again after so long, so thanks random poll!
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