#stilllifewithlemons

it really made me seek out music that was older/less well known and forced me to think about how i could use music to capture a story or a person, and what made it so a song could have a massive emotional affect on someone with sound alone. now all of the songs i make are really heavy/ambient/electronic, with a bunch of random everyday sounds that i find & obsessively record everywhere, bc i think SWAN made me start paying attention to the music i could find everywhere

This is amazingly cool, I want to pick this comment up and shake it at people like, “Would you fucking look at this shit, this is rad as hell!”

I don’t know anything about making music, really, which is hilarious for someone writing a story about people who end up doing that.  I got the words part down, maybe, if I just plow straight through it, and I can sing, but I’ve never fucking put together a tune or anything, so I was just like ‘how could what I made have influenced someone MAKING music, what sorcery is this?’

That’s a very Homicides approach, though, both the style and the incorporation of things from the everyday world, I delightedly approve~

oh, now i can see what you missed! basically i was gushing about how i read SWAN for the first time right after it ended in 2008 when i was 13 and it left a huge impression on me at that age, & changed the way i listened to (& would later make) music

Aww, that’s great.  I think that’s a common age to encounter it!

also a lot of asking myself, “if i had a song inside of me, what would it sound like?”

i’m lowkey already crying in anticipation

I felt physically ill but also had goosebumps.  It was A Time. 

like I had to go eat a few pretzels to settle my stomach and then just talk to someone to unwind for an hour, it was wild

It fucked me up super bad the first time too.