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So sad so sexy (2018) by lykke li

as we're transitioning into fall and as weather is getting colder, i've taken the warmer clothes and the sadder records out the closet and this is one of them... i especially love 'hard rain' and 'utopia'. i find this album so poetic, so raw, and just all around perfectly executed.

@yeehaw

Sep 17, 2024

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DOVES BY ARMAND HAMMER

It’s such an uncompromising song, it tackles grief and the processing of it in a vulnerable but ultimately human way. The production (credit to Benjamin Booker & Kenny Segal) is unsettling but warm, like you know that it can only get better but you have to just sit and deal with the discomfort of your current situation in order to get there. There’s a delicate piano melody that fades in and out of the mix alongside the faint hum of a guitar making what is in concept a experimental rap song into something different, the ‘rapping’ is more like spoken word poetry. Benjamin Bookers intro despite being repetitive due to his relaying of ‘I was only a dove, only in love’ is made so powerful due to how worn out and whispery his voice is, like it’s a memory of a loved one haunting you. Which in turn fades into billy woods’ verse which reads more like poetry than a rap verse. Some of my favourite lines being: ‘They called like "Come now, he doesn't have long to live", I dress slowly, Came back that night and took my baby out the crib so I could hold him’ or ‘Locked doors never had a key but you test the handle occasionally, God forbid it swing open” “Attic stairs broken, don't go up there, From the windows i watch the diggers disappear in soft wet earth, Dinner served, i waited for my guests, long table set.’ It’s so bleak but perfectly describes the little moments of discomfort you feel when losing someone and I think it works perfectly combined with how minimalistic the production is. The closing segment from ELUCID is a lot grander in scale and thematically darker, the production starts to get corrupted with static crackles slowly consuming each layer of the instrumental whilst ELUCID foretells the impending end. It’s a sucker punch that catches you out but it works due to how the song is structured all the emotions caused by loss are only told about up until this point and ELUCIDs part represents the listener tackling them head-on. It’s uncomfortable and you’ll probably skip it on relisten (hell I often do) but I think it’s purpose is so powerful and as a whole the song is incredibly thought provoking.

@bensinc

Apr 13, 2025

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Diane cluck

Winter is an excellent time to brood and rot and listen to elegant gorgeous songwriting that makes you feel all sorts of things against your own will. If you have ever wept to miss Adrienne Lenker, preferably in the front seat of your car or the dark of your apartment bedroom while staring out the window, this is the lady for you. I myself am listening to this song right now and contemplating taking up smoking again! huzzah 😞🫶

@peenit

Jan 24, 2024

Top Recs from @verygoodvalentina

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finding old youtube videos and looking at the comments section like a historian

I adore finding a random video from like 2005 and reading through the comments the way a historian would examine an old manuscript from the 1700s. Are these people still active YouTube users? Or are they forgotten accounts? What did @jjlwis mean by "awww im gonna miss rob too!!!" ? Who even is Rob?? Anthropology in the digital age... so many questions... it's fascinating. The important thing for me is not to add new comments. I feel like I'm disturbing an old archeological dig site and my sticky modern commentary will make the video crumble away into oblivion. More importantly, I don't want the algorithm to suggest the video to a bunch of people who will spam the comments section– major yuck 🤢

@verygoodvalentina

Jan 25, 2024

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old pickup trucks

early 80s to early 2000s truck models are the perfect sizes imo. current trucks are transformer-sized behemoths that could easily crush normal vehicles into smithereens upon impact and i legit don’t know how those things are even street-legal. also, idk if it’s their design, reliability or the nostalgia factor per-se, but there’s a certain sazón those older trucks have that newer ones don’t. 2024 Ford F-150? 🤮🤢 1980 Ford F-150? 🫦🫦

@verygoodvalentina

Feb 9, 2025

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Prioritize in-person experiences

with social media being this pervasive entity that has weeded its way into our daily routines for the past 20ish years (plus a global pandemic that really solidified those habits), many young adults today have spent a large amount of their lives living online. it has become the new norm and i’m not gonna pretend i’m above any of this because it’s so easy to fall into it (i am literally writing this rec on my phone whilst it’s a perfectly sunny day that i should probably go out to enjoy). with that being said, in the larger scheme of life, being in your 20s is still in a weird way the beginning stages of your life. it’s a period to try new things, make mistakes, learn from them and develop an identity that’s independent from the environment and people who raised you. though you can learn to do some of those things online, they don’t hold a candle to actually experiencing those things for yourself in real life. all in all, the best way to not sleep thru your 20s is to prioritize in-person experiences that allow you to get a better understanding of yourself and your values. whether that be getting your first tattoo, moving to a new city or country, exploring your personal style or taking up hobbies you couldn’t or would‘ve never done as a kid, this is an important formative time to venture out and get a sense of who you truly are.

@verygoodvalentina

Sep 30, 2024