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Godflesh: Pure II

Last week I thought I’d write about this song. It’s one I enjoy listening to but I think I wasn’t able to articulate the listening experience in the words below. That said, I think the below still captures the song … Continue reading

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Nubya Garcia: Source

I was thinking a fair bit about what I was writing early on, but as the song progressed I sort of let go of that. I don’t think that quite came through, but I like the result here. It’s rough; … Continue reading

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Salyu: Sailing Days

I think I was mostly trying to cover image here. Not sure if I did a good job of it. Some of this feels forced, I think, though quite unintentional. Salyu’s “Sailing Days” is from S(o)un(d)beams. I hope you enjoy. … Continue reading

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SeaLifePark: Quiet

One listen for this one, though with a few restarts early on due to letting myself get distracted. I was hoping to get some sort of narrative going when I went into this but that idea went out the window. … Continue reading

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A Poem About a Sudden Storm

I wrote a bit of this a few days ago and decided to start again. Then I didn’t and decided to try and finish it off this morning. I can confirm that it was not worth doing so. I hope … Continue reading

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Ukiyo-e: Souwester

This one was not the easiest to go on about and I’m not sure why. It seems like a fairly straightforward song but I think either I was overthinking what I was writing or I was going against the song, … Continue reading

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Mukaizake: Come Join The Milky Squadron

This song I heard for the first time recently. When I did I decided to write about it and so I did, as evidenced by the below. I’m not sure what I was going for here but I do know … Continue reading

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Hiroki Kikuta: Evening Star

This was easy and I think it is due to my approach here which was to sort of kind of go for imagery, but closer to a narrative… sort of. It didn’t quite work but I do like the result … Continue reading

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A Poem About Wind

There is so much to say about wind and this is what I settled on. I could’ve written about the wind’s motion, or how it feels, or how it can be symbolic, but this is what I settled on. Didn’t … Continue reading

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Yuko Komiya: Everlasting Words

This is another song I’ve had queued up for a while. It was fairly straightforward to write about and I think that has to do with me being familiar enough to have an idea of how the song goes, but … Continue reading

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