#time before

[theblackestofsuns]

“How Much?”

Time Before Time #16 (September 2022)

Rory McConville, Declan Shalvey, Eric Zawadzki and Chris O’Halloran

Image Comics

[slowlyimploding]

Time Before

The earth you stand on is older than you can fathom. It is millions of years of ash, bone, and rebirth Layer upon layer of ages gone by Time you will never experience first hand

You hold uncountable births and deaths In your cupped palms as you fill them with earth You cannot know how many lives were lived In that palmful of dark sand

Your toes time travel as they sink into the sand You bring back eons under your fingernails As you dig further back Trying to feel what the world was like when the world was still new And time had yet to exist. 

[teenspiritnyc]

we posted something about the feelies' early stuff back in march, and this song is from their last album (the feelies' 10-year hiatus is like the 7 month gap between our feelies posts, taking into account the accelerated pace of Internet Time).

not to get musically philosophical and make references to seminal artists, but i think 'should be gone' has a beat happening vibe and that 'on and on' has a velvet underground sound.* usually the latter comparison is the hugest cliche ever, but in this case the song is still really nice. maybe i just mean tambourines=velvet underground?

*UPDATE: I just checked AllMusic's feelies entry and the velvet underground comparison was totally obvious. fine. bonus points for the beat happening reference, though-- try finding that kind of insight outside this blog!

--JENNA