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https://miscellany.pckt.blog/may-31-porcile-qday9a9 · 31 May 2026
End of the month, time for a rarity, and this feels very much like a song that acts as a portent of times yet to come. The conceit of this song is that it's written from the point of view of a person who is changing into a pig, and the violence they unleas...
https://miscellany.pckt.blog/may-30-cotton-vabey0t · 30 May 2026
Is whimsical catharsis a thing? This song is light and beautiful and soft, a gentle account of the things we hang onto, the memories that pain us, the scabs we pick at, the guilt we tend and maintain, and an easy instruction to do the hardest thing possibl...
https://miscellany.pckt.blog/may-29-rose-quarter-drifting-we-shall-all-be-healed-d1xu23r · 29 May 2026
This is a fragment, an unreleased song that only exists in versions from radio stations and live shows. And as such it's easy to see the ideas that started here and came out later. The line stared down demons, came back breathing felt like a preview of You...
https://miscellany.pckt.blog/may-28-against-pollution-ex2548c · 28 May 2026
I don't know if there's such a thing as a stadium anthem of eschatological nihilism, but if there is, that's this song. A huge and momentous sound to this song, coupled with lyrics that start with a narrow focus of the mundane and horrifying, but can't hel...
https://miscellany.pckt.blog/may-27-pigs-that-ran-straightaway-into-the-water-triumph-d1ak23r · 27 May 2026
This song is two things. First of all, it's a song played on a bus while someone is being taken to jail. Second of all, it's a song of the heart and of triumph. We Shall All Be healed is a remarkable and powerful album, but it's also kind of a beginning-to...
https://miscellany.pckt.blog/may-26-home-again-garden-grove-vasgy0t · 26 May 2026
A rolling boil of paranoia, this is a song about scoring. The mania and the on-edge nature of looking desperately for something, caught in the rabid simplicity of needing your fix and nothing else. Everything about the song here, from the lyrics to the ins...
https://miscellany.pckt.blog/may-25-mole-tzg5qge · 25 May 2026
Sometimes the simplicity and audacity of a song just wash over you. Mole is a simple, tiny melody, a story of an addict going to visit another addict in a hospital bed that had been gained via misadventure. Small and sad and kept afloat by a false hope of ...
https://miscellany.pckt.blog/may-24-your-belgian-things-zcysdj6 · 24 May 2026
So, going to start by looking at the musicality here. This is an absolute joy of a mid century ballad. The way the guitar and bass and piano wrap around each other and the repeated poetic refrains. I can't imagine exactly what the musical this came from wo...
https://miscellany.pckt.blog/may-23-letter-from-belgium-tzugqge · 23 May 2026
A really gorgeous post-punk sound to this one, and a style of song that has a number of my favourite features of Mountain Goats songs. I've never done methamphetamine. For so many reasons. One of the more minor ones is that someone once descibed the feelin...
https://miscellany.pckt.blog/may-22-hommel-west-6gjvkgj · 22 May 2026
ByIan Rennie-May 22, 2026