#Album diary

[oopsl]

Boygenius EP by Boygenius, 2018

[mesotheliac]

unsettling comfort

[beachbunnyofficial]

growing digital gardens

Recently I watched video on growing a digital garden - As a musician I tend to fixate mostly on creating but I’ve noticed that magic ideas don’t come from the void but are an amalgamation of thoughts, inspirations, conclusions, and experience. Art and life exist not only in the finale but throughout the entire process. The idea of a digital garden is meticulously observing the links along the way. Perhaps the goal in this explicit awareness is the hope that the products of our consumption can find their way into a song, a painting, a film, or a poem. Trace amounts of a photograph might mutate into a stage dressing, a line from a movie might spark the idea for a novel, or the name of a character might come to you from eavesdropping at a restaurant. You have a direct cause and effect documented somewhere - and it’s for you. I tried to breakdown some music I’ve been listening to this month and capture what I’ve learned about my taste, and how it’s effected writing the upcoming record

🩷 Things I really like in songs 🩷

-lyrics that are vulnerable but not hyper specific

-metaphors that are relatable but not the first thing you think of (maybe the third thing)

-fast (but not necessarily quick)

-sudden changes (tempo, instruments, key, drum pattern)

-I like pauses

-big choruses

-I like when guitar riffs loop & I like when the loop repeats at some point in the song

-I like songs where I can’t explain what instrument I’m hearing

-I like when someone uses a sample that’s so random it actually tickles my brain

-I like contrast. Sad song happy sound. Happy song sad sound

-I like when a song makes me use another one of my senses

-dark bass lines

-I love record scratching

-I like when a song makes you consider

A lot of Beach Bunny has existed in that world of contrast on a visual basis. World building is something I care deeply about but always feels like a new language at the beginning. When a new era comes into frame it’s usually deriving from some other source in my life outside music. Honeymoon was built on skating in the parking lot, wearing glitter on my eyelids to class and ending my first real relationship between midterms and finals. Emotional creature stemmed from pandemic escapism, finding love again, an affinity for retro sci fi movies, and learning music production.

Tunnel Vision takes place is a valentines lala land under a cotton candy sky. All the songs focus on a relationship with myself or a relationship with the world. As I’ve mentioned before I love contrast and what’s more opposite than Barbie pink nuclear warfare or a lace heart lobotomy. Creating a romantic world visually was inspired heavily by 2012-14 tumblr - a place where us teens could mourn together in niche communities and project our deepest insecurities onto movie stills. I also pulled references from 1950s films and photographs of the immortalized squeaky clean suburbia. Turning 27 filled me with existential dread and the best way to digest a complex phenomenon is to romanticize it. The lyrics are unfortunately doomsday, but at least there’s something pretty to look at

[soulmvtes]

so crazy to revisit songs and albums again and again and seeing how you relate to them, especially if you found them in your formative years

[oopsl]

Brand New Eyes by Paramore, 2009

[cowgirlp1xie]

The Holy Trinity🔔🕊️

ପ૮๑ᵔ ᵕ ᵔ๑ აଓ

[sullenserenequeen]

anyone can start again, not through love, but through revenge.

[6th-for-truth]

I feel like the Venn diagram of Murderbot and The Locked Tomb is baaaaaaasically a circle. And it should be even more circular; so take this as a sign if you’ve been holding out on one or the other!

Stickers available here on my Etsy!

[visualmilk]

Wolvie, the mafia boss and his loyal henchmen 💪🩷

[oopsl]

Boys for Pele by Tori Amos, 1996

[cowgirlp1xie]

WHEN IS TUMBLR GONNA MAKE A FEATURE WHERE I CAN SAVE POSTS INTO DIFFERENT FOLDERS⁉️⁉️⁉️

[strawberrywhoree]

Emmy Rossum the mother that u are..

[ssongsboo]

i just went through my albums bc i wanted to declutter my display case n omg hOW AM I SUPPOSED TO GET RID OF ALL OF THESE

[every-eye-evermore]

Finished my shirt just in time for the Boston gizzhead meetup >:) catch y’all there

(more pictures under the cut)

The second picture is before I washed it out, A little heartbroken at how much the colors faded but ah well… the colors I got match with more of my wardrobe

[sootends]

trans people listen to this song. shit made me cry

[whim513]

abstract psychopomp comes on and suddenly i’m the poor thing in the road