Rec | LISTENING TO BEACH HOUSE WHEN UR SIMPLY CONTENT INSTEAD O...

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listening to beach house when ur simply content instead of wallowing

i used to use beach house as a soundtrack for deep turmoil, but sometimes simply chilling to saltwater is great. have to keep rerouting my neural pathways away from 2am bike rides home, leaving doe library the certain genre of band you’d like to engage with more often but for the pavlovian conditioning, taking u back to a version of yourself u avoid. to be fair though beach house is sort of made for wallowing it’s special to be able to remediate so directly with many of your past selves, feel the same feelings. it can be easy to recoil from those versions of u & their choices, forgetting what their (your) emotional realities were.

@beepboopbap

Mar 12, 2025

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