This didn’t begin as an idea. It began as a week that slipped somewhere I hadn’t planned to go, and music was the only place where any of it made sense.
I. THE TABLE WHERE EVERYONE ELSE FITS
Some situations don’t announce what’s missing, they just leave a space like an empty chair no one else at the table seems to notice. But you notice. You keep noticing.
Music doesn’t fix that, it doesn’t try to: it just sits beside you while you feel it.
Sunny Day Real Estate - Seven
The Hotelier - Life in Drag
La Dispute - King Park
Movements - Daylily
The Get Up Kids - Ten Minutes
Leatherface - Not a Day Goes By
Samiam - Full On
II. LEARNING THE NEW SHAPE OF IT
Grief doesn't end, it just changes its weight.
At some point, it stops being only grief: it becomes something you carry differently, something that contradicts itself, something unfinished, something that hasn't decided yet what it is becoming.
This is the part without a name, and sometimes it's the hardest part of all.
Manchester Orchestra - Simple Math
American Football - Never Meant
Balance and Composure - Reflection
Title Fight - Chlorine
Circa Survive - Get Out
Copeland - No One Really Wins
Nothing - ACD
III. LOOK INTO YOUR HEART AND FIND ME
What it asks of you is simple, and almost unbearable: to believe things might still be alright, even when you're no longer sure they will ever be again.
Love doesn't come back the way it left. It comes back anyway.
Julien Baker - Appointments
Foxing - Rory
Turnover - Cutting My Fingers Off
Fiddlehead - Heart to Heart
Oso Oso - This Must Be My Exit
Arm’s Length - Object Permanence
Death Cab for Cutie - I Will Follow You into the Dark
Some things stay lost. Some things just wait for you to be ready to find them again.
PLAYLIST
Check out the previous episodes of this series: Hidden Frequencies #01, Hidden Frequencies #02, Hidden Frequencies #03, Hidden Frequencies #04, Hidden Frequencies #05.
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