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Holy. Fuck. Flora Cash now sounds like a non-whimpering Bon Iver fronting an acoustic electric version of Portishead that is just as moody as the original, but holy fuck I had never considered that matchup, but DAAAAAMN THIS IS PERF! If I wasn't already seated, I'd have to sit down for this shit. "Sadness Is Taking Over" is sort of the perfect song for right now, when nothing else really seems real, but sad is really the only thing I'm sure I'm feeling. I am a complete fucking puddle when it comes to songs that make me shut the fuck up, and I am a goddamn MIME at this point.  Wow.  If you needed a reason to shut the fuck for a minute... If you needed a reason to forget how to speak for a minute... If you needed another excuse to keep your goddamn opinions to your fucking self for...

I've loved this dude as a friend for a long time. I loved him as a friend before I had even became actual friends with him. The fact that he raps alls goods is secondary to how much I even like thinking about hanging out with him and slamming pogs and playing ninja gaiden and shit. While we have shared the same internet spaces together, we've also virtually shared the highs and lows of life and the uphill, sticky and snotty battle of parenthood together. Sure, sometimes it's as simple as an Instagram notification that dude liked a picture of something I took the time to capture and share, but other times it's the one on one direct messages of encouragement back and forth, or the "I'm sorry dude" back and forth, or the "fuck man, I love you" that might seem uncommon when you're talking...

So The Midnight Echo used the word "anthemic" in their music submission and I was all crossed arms like "bro, you can't call yourself anthemic, that's anti-anthemic bro".  AND THEN I LISTENED AND THEN WHEN THE SONG ENDED I WAS ON TOP OF MY DESK WITH MY FISTED HANDS AT MY SIDES IN AN ENJOYABLY PURE FIT OF WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. I love when rock music makes me want to hop over household appliances and turn mops into swords and shit. Thirty Seconds to Mars is one of my weaknesses, and The Midnight Echo hit me on that 30STM nerve and while it's closer to a Blink 182 meets 30STM, I fucking love it. Anthemic balls, amazing drums, vocal layers are fucking exciting and emotional, and I've listened to tit 4 times in 15 minutes and I think the way the drums are recorded alongside the crisp fucking...

How does this dude make EVERY song he writes sound like I'm waking up on a fucking beach? Seriously, Hanging Valleys always makes me feel like I'm just waking up, I rub my eyes, and I'm startled that the eye boogs I go to wipe out of my eyes are super calcified and sandy. Then I look to my finger tips, where I normally have a nice and green goopy eye boog to flick at my wife, and it's a little pile of beachy fucking sand. HANGING VALLEYS IS THE SAND YOU PICK OUT OF YOUR EYE PITS IN PLACE OF EYE BOOGS.  I have listened to "Coast Days" a good 73 times this week already and while I live nowhere near a coast, I love how enveloped in sound I've been since hitting play the first time. The capturing of the slap on the wood of the acoustic guitar is huge because I can imagine the entire...