It’s important to note that while some of these tracks must inevitably rank lower than others, no song on folklore stands out as being particularly bad. My barren land

You know that I caught it Thanks for indulging me! Keep them and almost preserve them in this way, instead of trying to disassociate them from him. Now you have two Taylor Swift songs on your smash playlist – did you ever think you’d live to see the day? Fall may mean the end of summer and the final months of a long year, but no matter how old you get, it retains that special first-day-of-school excitement you felt for so many years as a kid. So let “Sunlit Juice” be your anthem as you swap out the Tanqueray for the Twinings.

I said, come on in / I will not open myself up this way again.”. First of all, this song is so Jack Antonoff that it almost hurts.

If there’s any band Americorps NCCC loves more than Lake Street Dive, it’s Rainbow Kitten Surprise. I don’t like Reputation nearly as much as I liked 1989, just like I didn’t like 1989 as much as I liked Red. Simple, wrenching, beautiful. And I’m so sick of them coming at me again / ‘Cause if I was a man, then I’d be the man”. That you drag around Bittersweet memories, bruh.”, “Me and Us – Punch Brothers. This song is petty and flippant and I shouldn’t like it nearly as much as I do, but its placement as the album opener is a small stroke of genius. The music video, released the same day as the song, shows singer Sophie Allison reveling in her murder of her partner (played by her boyfriend, band guitarist Julian Powell): she is shown dancing, drawing on his corpse, and rubbing his blood on her face before she eventually cuddles longingly with his dead body. Quit taunting me.
But who could stay?”. The road trip anthem of the season, a bonfire-dancing song, a subtly sexy love letter to iconic jazz music. I know I was not getting my message across, I know you can’t stand it when that’s how I talk, When I summon a duel or when I brandish a thought, And sure, some of them could use a good talk, But babe, don’t tell all our friends about me.”. It was this feeling of being frustrated about that, like not knowing how you can work and live in this world without being torn all the time. Sometimes, they slip away anyway. My ex Adam* used to sing it to me in the shower, and he has the voice of an angel and I can’t even truly describe the extent of how loved I felt in those moments.”, “Singing a duet of “Slowness” by Calexico.”, “D’Angelo – “Cruisin’. [Verse 5] But now that I’m not crushed by financial anxiety as I watch Instagram influencers pound bottomless mimosas and biscuits, I have to say I kind of get it.

The whole weekend / It’s nice to have a friend”, It’s the shortest and second-to-last track on the album, but “It’s Nice to Have A Friend” probably would have worked better as a coda. Underneath its badass facade, it’s actually a pretty vulnerable song – “This is how the world works / You gotta leave before you get left.” Here, Taylor elucidates the way the cutthroat worlds of fame and romance can harden a person into the very thing they used to fear. You’re finally ready to admit that love is the saddest, most worthwhile thing you’ve ever done, and you can’t wait to lay your heart on the line again. Leavin’ like a father / Running like water, I I recommend this entire album to anyone going through a breakup, but “Recite Remorse” is an especially refreshing standout in Waxahatchee’s Out In The Storm. Instead, you can feel a hope blooming that one day, you’ll look back on this relationship and this heartbreak as something beautiful. Even the songs that we play in our darker moments weave themselves into the narrative of our life in a comforting way, assigning meaning and beauty to our pain. Say your final farewells to summer, because the leaves are changing and you need a soundtrack to match. – watch the whole music video! Don’t get me wrong, “Dylan Thomas” is grim – but after we all spent the winter getting “greedy with [our own] private hell[s],” this song leaves us with the comforting feeling that there’s a sort of charm in every mess. Now that it’s finally warm enough to go outside without long underwear on (I’m speaking for you guys in the colder regions, obviously), it feels like anything is possible. Fall may be beautiful, but it doesn’t arrive without its fair share of melancholy. It taught me, in the turmoil of my high school years, to look inward and move forward – to “salute at the threshold of the North Sea of my mind.”, Perhaps the most delicately heartbreaking FR song, “Poke” describes a relationship that has grown weak and cold but has yet to end. Here’s what’s been in my ears this fall so far! It begins not quite softly but with an ominous, open-plains Americana spirit that somersaults into a windows-down rock and roll song complete with twangy guitar solos. I don't wanna be your little pet Jamison’s gentle voice and delicate Americana instrumentation are as soothing as a mug of sunset tea, but he shines brightest of all as a lyricist, constructing vivid narratives rich with imagery and metaphor. As for the type of guy this song is directed at, might I suggest … The National? I remember thinking if there ever was a song that he embodied, this is it.”, “Eve* and I would listen to “Honeybee” by Steam Powered Giraffe, this weird funny song by a cosplay band, and I would call her my little honeybee.

In “peace,” listeners can almost feel the years of introspection giving way to self-acceptance as Swift contemplates her future with her current partner. The allegory wavers pretty consistently between disappointingly opaque and glaringly obvious (“So sad we paint the town blue”; “Boys will be boys, then / Where are the wise men?”), but all in all, you’re left with the feeling that this track is some sort of flailing overcompensation for Swift’s very late entry into the political realm. The former Vampire Weekend guitarist and producer extraordinaire finally released his long-awaited solo debut Half-Light on September 15, and the result is a dreamy, massively varied album full of strings, hand drums and the mumbly, intimate vocals we’ve come to love.

Today, you’re ready to step into the boat and row yourself back into the eye of the storm. Here, Red-era Taylor recounts a relationship in a series of painfully intimate memories – dancing around the kitchen in the refrigerator light, scarves left at relatives’ houses. Remember going outside? When you're lonely or confused That it did – the only completely acoustic track on the record, it displays the kind of sparsity, restraint, and emotional maturity that I wanted the whole time from this album. No story – just a nice little track from a guy I found myself listening to a lot during Round 2. Either “ME!” is a well-architected musical red herring or it was written for an animated movie whose producers then firmly passed, but I don’t exaggerate when I say this song filled me with dread. And when you are young, they assume you know nothing. I saw Death Cab again a few months ago and they closed with “Transatlanticism” again.

She played this song so much.

I’ve been listening to a lot of stuff by this trio from Waterville, Ohio – their thumping folk pop radiates rustbelt authenticity while still maintaining its playful Americana spirit. There you have it!

Leave me crawling back to you The narrator recognizes here that “It takes more than fucking someone you don’t know / To keep warm,” but you also get the feeling that this awareness is not enough to stop him from seeking “love in a hole.”, I talked a lot about this song here, in one of my first posts for Nightswimming Songs. So, essentially, this has all been a very dramatic way of saying. “See, honey, I saw love / You see it came to me / It puts its face up to my face so I could see, Yeah then I saw love disfigure me / Into something I am not recognizing, See the cage, it called. Brunch is perhaps the best display of Sunday morning decadence that Los Angeles has to offer, and I can imagine it’s hard not to feel like a movie star as you eat $17 french toast with this song in the air.