송나래

how do people posses the power to compose life into songs that move me so deeply inside? and ninety percent of the time i don’t know what the lyrics are, but their instrumentals alone tell the richest stories and i’m just filled with non-specific emotions. pleasure? pain? just something. i am just so moved, i feel like a fish out of water. and the live versions of their songs are completely enhanced by the live mixing and additions they do on stage—the studio stuff already being amazing to begin with. i cannot handle this band.

right before they played “in kind” tonight, which was their last song, austin and raphaelle sang this weird but beautiful angelic ambient duet which was the beginning of the extended cut of “in kind” (which appears on their “flourish // perish” album). the duet eventually crossfaded into “in kind” and in those moments when it was just them singing “ahhh”s and wispy but hazy fairy-esque yelps, you could also hear a silence and it was akin to some kind of power. it was rapturous. and raphaelle hit all of those extremely high notes in that song with absolutely no effort, her voice is a crystal engine.