TW//DEPRESSION//SELF-HARM//DRUGS
I was thinking real hard about doing this review for so long because I thought a ton of it would be oversharing but yk what, fuck it lets go I’m feeling too impacted by this album right now to not do it, plus what good is a review site if people only write over-polished generic reviews that have no soul to them? Anyways bear with me here and don’t get impatient or expect me to get to the point fast because I want to make this review as honest as ... read more
“𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐟𝐚𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐜𝐚𝐧’𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲, 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐅𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫”
—Solange, Almeda
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The musical equivalent of healing from the deepest and most abysmal scars.
400 years of slavery and to this day we still aren’t free.
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I find myself sitting down at 6pm after a school day with my newly done ... read more
“𝙏𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙨𝙘𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙡 𝙉𝙞𝙝𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙢 𝙃𝙖𝙨 𝙍𝙤𝙩𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙈𝙮 𝘽𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙣”
I am a social worker for a mental hospital. I call the parents of the souls that do not remember why they lasted ten years in the visceral red hallway that led to the tip of the 5th mountain in the east. Transcendental nihilism rotted the core of my brain. I can no longer speak, move, talk, or continue the regular ... read more
When was the last time you forgave yourself?
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That’s a question many of us need to keep asking ourselves.
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It is my first day back home after being inpatient at a mental hospital for the fourth time in my life. My inertia is blurry and I really don’t know where I’m going. But all I can do is try.
So even if forgiveness of the self feels like something I haven’t felt in like ever, I must still try.
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Thank you BCNR for giving the world an ... read more
“𝙏𝙝𝙤𝙨𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙤 𝙘𝙖𝙣'𝙩 𝙖𝙙𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩
𝙏𝙚𝙣𝙛𝙤𝙡𝙙 𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙡𝙚𝙙 𝙥𝙪𝙨
𝙊𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙞 𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙪𝙨 𝙢𝙤𝙙𝙪𝙨
𝙈𝙮 𝙥𝙝𝙡𝙚𝙜𝙢 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙩𝙤 𝙙𝙪𝙨𝙩
𝘿𝙧𝙖𝙜𝙤𝙣 𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙨𝙚𝙧
𝙄'𝙡𝙡 𝙦𝙪𝙞𝙩 𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙧
𝘼𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙤𝙞𝙙 𝙩𝙤 ... read more
When you first listen to it you question why it’s considered the best song of all time.
When you listen to it again the instrumental begins to speak to you more.
When you read the lyrics the badly mixed vocals begin to make sense.
When you’re in the right place in life, it becomes a mirror for your dissociative amnesia, lost desires, and wasted potential futures and destinies—a mirror for the darkest corners of the psyche.
Interweaving blurry memories, a winter coldness ... read more