Mount Eerie - Non-Metaphorical Decolonization (2024)

Have you listened to the new album yet? I was just about to post on the weekly music chat about it then realized I should just do a search lol

But yeah, man, there's SO MUCH going back for him. So many references to old material, both lyrically and musically. And very much back to that fuzz and distortion that I missed a lot. His ability to create these beautiful hooks surrounded by the distortion is just something I think is amazing cathartic to the heaviness of going through life. So much fuzz and distortion around us, but still a beautiful melody to be found within it.

Not to break down song from song but man, My Canopy especially. I don't know if the "I love you" at the end is a direct reference to the "I love you" at the end of Real Death...but it's hard for me to take it in any other way. And the way he says "I love you" on My Canopy to his daughter, the inflection in the I as he hover on it, -I- love you. With just how defeated he sounds with the "I love you" in Real Death, it just really made me choke up hearing the "I love you" in My Canopy.

I also just love how much the album has to do with this feeling of nothing really mattering. It's an album that, where I am in my life, has hit me massively with what he sings about.

And so I love how it ends with "I Need New Eyes" - first continuing this idea:
I just wanted to say something true
And complicate my youth
But now a new idea complicates my old age:
It's that nothing arises in the first place
All this impermanence is just another thing my mind made
I was never here, and nothing goes away.

And then realizing just how dumb it is to come to such a conclusion in totality:
Now I'm staring at a boulder trying to tell myself "This didn't arise"
I need new eyes

It's why I love him so much, how true and real he is able to be in his lyrics - while able to craft these tones that fit the emotion of those lyrics so well. Again, the distortion with the beautiful melodies inside

(The Glow, Pt 2 is possibly my favorite album of all time so yes I am insanely excited for this sound again lol)