Bipolar core

"The Big Ship" is the most soulcrushing song I've ever heard and right after it we get songs like "I'll Come Running" and then later "Golden Hours"

>Forgetting Becalmed
what hte fuck

I totally get what you mean about both albums. Gonna give them another listen with all that in mind, thanks man

Anytime! I definitely didn't appreciate Amnesiac a lot at first and thought people just called it their best for hipster cred but over time it kinda came together. Listen to it and once you've found a song or two that you really enjoy enough to come back to the rest will fall into place.

I don't know if that song is happy or sad. It's very beautiful though

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I dunno, I've never thought of the lyrics to Packt Like Sardines as innocuous or silly. I think they're about a guy who has lived most of his life and is starting to have feelings that he has made a mistake, and is in denial and is defending himself and his character against these feelings. It could also not be his fault, and you could see it as him really being a reasonable man who just feels bombarded by life. But I don't see it as Silly Songs With Larry.

I always feel like this album is twice as long as it actually is, just because of how many different emotions it manages to convey

Yeah, maybe silly isn't the right word. It just feels like there's something a lot darker lurking beneath the surface and the source of it is this disconnect between the lyrical and musical content of the song.

Life In A Glasshouse feels similar. Especially since it directly follows Like Spinning Plates and is so tame by comparison.