i am Deep Cleaning my browser bookmarks, and via that twisted labyrinth i found a mention of Black Out Days being an obsession song for me soon after it was released, and haha yeah i remember at least one night of drinking box wine alone and staying up until dawn while that song played on repeat. a truly miserable period!!

i can listen to this album without having a bad time, but… it's weird because i know it well, and every once in a great while think about listening to it… and i just can't emotionally connect with it. i hear feeling in it but it's kind of a dissociation album to me? sonically i always liked what they were… More

i already had a little story for this album, but stories sometimes double upon stories, and now i have a doubled-upon story for this album.

yesterday: i am tidying my bedroom while listening to a new release by a band i have never heard of before, and by some leaps of association, i am reminded of this album. i put it on, thinking i can give it a fresh listen and maybe even log it here on record dot club. i am also coming up against my own stubbornness while tidying, so i break to take a shower.

here are some words i've sure other people have used to describe Gossamer: exuberant. frenetic. exultant. devastating. it doesn't devastate me now,… More