Sunny Spot on the Floor

Hi :) So! Riverside had a nice long run because work has been my entire life for several months but I’m back in action for at least long enough to write this.

Whisky Tide - Ferester

Run Time: 3:24

Genre: Indie, folk, kinda country-ish vibe in parts?

“If I were the waves, and you were the coast, I’d crash in your bays and drift to your coves //

“Wishing I could stay forever on your shores.”

I first heard this song in the background of one of my friend’s Snapchat stories.

This is easily one of my favorite love songs I know. There’s no grand declaration or promises nobody’s going to keep. Time goes on, and on and on, but no matter what happens or where two people end up, the love, the ache is still there. And maybe one day it will be different, and they’ll have all the time in the world. Until then, what they have is enough.

My favorite parts of this song include, of course, the coastal imagery, as someone from Maine who never shuts the fuck up about being from Maine (did you guys know I’m from Maine btw?) and the bridge toward the end because overlapping vocals 😍

It is late April which means I am in the lull between my two seasonal jobs. This is typically when I latch onto a love song and start believing I’ll actually relate to it one day. A direct result of 1) starting to feel ever so slightly human again with time off and 2) knowing it will be starting to warm up into the 50°-60°s consistently pretty soon. I will get over myself soon, but in the meantime, listen to Whisky Tide!

If you end up liking this song, I also recommend:

Ferester’s other music!!!

Back to Us - Ike Dweck

Badlands - Harrison Boe

Get Older - Harrison Boe

riverside - asiris

Run time: 3:38

Genre: indie-folk, folk-pop. As always, do not fully trust my genre categorizations.

“Lost in the mountains, could care less ‘bout a curfew //

“Got no reception, there’s no way I can hurt you.”

I heard this song first through my Spotify DJ. Thanks X.

This is My Song right now. Because what can you do when you can’t escape your patterns? When no matter how hard you try, you keep making the wrong choices? And those choices hurt people, and you know what the right choice would be, but that would hurt them too?

You run. And you hide. And you pray for a forgiveness you’re pretty sure you don’t deserve. And if you can’t, you dream of it. Because things cannot stay this way.

Things cannot stay this way.

If you like this song, I also recommend:

Bridges - Ike Dweck

Dead Branches - Harrison Boe

Burn Me - Jonah Kagen ft. Sam Barber

Run time: 3:34

Genre: Country-ish, Indie folk? I don’t know never trust my genre categorizations please and thank you xo

“I don’t know if I was made from God’s hands //

“But I know my father is a good man”

This is a song I heard for the first time very recently through a Spotify-generated radio selection based on Get Older by Harrison Boe. I’m always a sucker for weapons as a metaphor for anger and as you’ll come to know, I love music featuring or highlighting a complicated relationship with faith— the journey of doubt and loss and grief for it.

It’s so hard to reconcile it, when you’re given rules from the very beginning and told that it’s the only way to be, to reconcile that some very good people you know don’t follow those rules- and they’re still good. At a certain point, everyone has to realize it; there is no one way to be good. The world is harsh and it can be mean and sometimes you just have to survive it. Nobody can be holy in all they do.

If you like this one, I also recommend:

Six Years Wiser - Harrison Boe

God Needs the Devil - Jonah Kagen

Quitter - Cameron Whitcomb