#i know nobody cares what i think but i wanted to rant about it knshdhfh

[ellipsyb]

your city gave me asthma, and a vibe check for every song

jubilee line // this song gives off sort of quiet sad vibes. not depressed, per say, just... sad. melancholy, perhaps. a very good introduction to this album, it definitely sets the tone. at the back end of the song, his voice just hits you where it hurts in the best fucking way.

saline solution // you know how sometimes you're so depressed that you just have to listen to hard rock and take a fucking power walk? that's how this song makes me feel. it gives me a bit of energy. but... depressed energy? if you know what i mean? also, when wilbur's voice gets louder and like... harsher? near the end? and when it's a lot more quiet immediately before hand? god, that just makes me feel a lot of things.

since i saw vienna // this track gives off similar vibes to jubilee line. melancholy, soft, acoustic. makes you miss something you've never had (la jolla also does this, i would say). also, the little bits where he's laughing or when he says, "cut that bit out," those parts somehow just add to the mood and accent it. overall a good song to feel to.

losing face // this song goes perhaps the hardest out of all the songs on the album. like the end of jubilee line and saline solutio, it's very powerful. a good song to listen to when you're angry or have a lot of energy. you don't actually hear a lot about this girl wilbur is singing about, you don't hear a lot of backstory, it's just "fuck you and fuck this guy you've left me for," and it adds all the more hostility to the tone. my favorite song on the album by far.

your sister was right // i haven't listened to this one as much as the others, so it hasn't made as much of an imprint on me, but i'll say this: the vocals are very demanding. the way that wilbur layers two different clips of his voice in the beginning, and then goes into that harsher, more powerful voice that he's used throughout the album, it drives home a very hostile tone. it's full of self-hatred, and somehow also hatred for whoever wilbur is singing to. it's a generally very strong track.

la jolla // another very quiet, sadder song. wilbur sings about wanting to leave his home and live in a place called la jolla (pronounced la hoyah), a seaside town in california, near san diego. it gives offa sort of a yearning tone that makes you want to visit la jolla, perhaps even live there as wilbur sings about in the track. his voice is very soft, it lacks the recurring tone of voice from other songs, that louder sort of voice. rather than taking away from the mood of the album, it serves to highlight the feeling of being trapped and lonely in the town where he is. this is a song i resonate with a lot.

i'm sorry boris // i believe this song is meant to go hand in hand with la jolla, even using phrasing that responds to the latter (la jolla: "you know it takes a lot to move me" / i'm sorry boris: "i figured out what can move me"). it has the same message of leaving his home town, but it comes with the melancholic irony of having so many roots. it eventually evolves into not wanting to leave at all, a stark contrast to the desire that wilbur has in la jolla. it's soft and slow, a perfect ending to the album.