Toe – Songs, Ideas We Forgot (2003)
The glass on the inside of a lightbulb talking to the glass on the outside of a lightbulb.
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Motörhead – Overkill (1979)
Your alarm clock has a very consistent way of drawing and quartering you every morning.
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Swervedriver – Mescal Head (Expanded) (1993)
Not how you feel when water gets in your ear, but the feelings of the water itself when it gets in your ear.
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Steely Dan – Can’t Buy a Thrill (1972)
You’re getting really exhausted by trying to think of new ways to tell the same people the subject of your thesis.
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Nothing – Guilty of Everything (2014)
You think you’re flirting with the server at your favorite restaurant when you ask her what she thinks about rack mount reverb units from the 80’s.
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Spiritualized – And Nothing Hurt (2018)
A headache both brought on and relieved by trying to pick your favorite love song you’ve written about lily-of-the-valley.
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Communions – Blue (2017)
The poetry chapbook written by a ski instructor who has seenMrs. Brown, You’ve Got a Lovely Daughtermore than twice is surprisingly pretty decent.
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Kyle Craft – Full Circle Nightmare (2018)
The only thing worse than your haircut is how much your black eye hurts after you told the girlfriend who gave it to you how bad the haircut she also gave you is.
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Marisa Anderson – Cloud Corner (2018)
What it feels like to slowly turn into all the drawings you made as a child.
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Träden – Träden (2018)
What it feels like to very slowly turn into all the drawings you did as a child.
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King Crimson – Larks’ Tongues In Aspic (1973)
The only emails you get are from eBay telling you that there still aren’t any bass clarinets available in your price range.
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Queens of the Stone Age – Queens of the Stone Age (1998)
Wine-drunk in the desert after your modeling gig.
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Lita Ford – Dangerous Curves (1991)
Your favorite funnel cake stain on your favorite leather vest accidentally, bittersweetly, and finally wears off when you spill an entire bottle of Mr. Boston’s Gin on it.
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Neil Young – Arc (1991)
The worst half of a bad idea about a free jazz dog whistle orchestra.
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Hollow Hand – Ancestral Lands (2016)
The Gideons rededicate their lives to replacing all the bibles they placed in hotel rooms with copies of The Canterbury Tales.
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Totorro – Come to Mexico (2016)
A pretty track sprinter in an “Ask Me About My Natural Disaster Cosplay Website” t-shirt.
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Mitski – Be the Cowboy (2018)
When you sing into your hairbrush, everything in the world electric turns organic and everything organics turns electric and they all start applauding the note you hold forever.
