I understand removing or changing track lists but I get irrationally angry when people insist on referring to their custom work as the artists album. Like it is by definition *not* the album anymore. It's a playlist.
With the hotelier it's different because they themselves don't acknowledge one particular song and have insisted that we don't acknowledge it as well, due to its problematic nature and triggering tendency for those of us that have experienced abuse. Now aside from that, I have no issue with rearranging to deleting songs but I myself choose not to unless a song bothers me personally like Housebroken does.
Back to this, this album seems to fly by and then I want to listen all over again. It's quick but there's a lot to unpack and it's so beautiful
The first two tracks and Posing Holy are my favorites, the latter being pretty much the only thing I've listened to in the last day or two.
"Just a simple conversation about nothing much at all Couldn't keep me in the room, I just kept walking down the hall But now I understand just what a fool I'd been No matter what the context, I won't have that time again I took inventory of what I took for granted And I ended up with more than I imagined!" Gah. Holy shit. What words.
I have a new favorite every few days, they all are the first half of the record and Skyscraper. I need to get deeper into the songs in between still.
This album is absolutely phenomenal, but, like Keep You and The Lack Long After I just can't bring myself to listen to it. In the almost four weeks since it's been released I think I've played it three times at most. I think it's incredible and I want to listen to it more, but I also can't be breaking into tears on the train, you know?
Totally with you there. Same with new ETID. I love them both, but the subject matter makes them difficult listens. I have to be – or have to want to be – in the right frame of mind.
Somehow it's already been a year You keep finding new ways to make yourself reappear I hope you never leave me be
What is the personal matter surrounding Low Teens? I always see people talk about it, but I don't know the story.
Yeah, his wife had some medical issues and their daughter was born very premature, and there were concerns that neither would make it. It happened when they were on tour, so Keith had to rush to get home, and apparently wrote all the lyrics that first night in the hospital. He talked a lot about it on this podcast – Keith Buckley