Release year: 2012
Ah yes, the anxiety album of my college years. Lorn has some pretty good music outside of this album too, but this one wrapped around me like an itchy wool blanket while I was traversing in a dirty unknown city.I don't know much about this artist other than his songs, but the music speaks to me enough to include it here.
Moving to a city I don't know, living on my own for the first time, sharing my room for the first time, having to have my work be judged by art professors and peers to the very core. These college years weighed down on me, making my body feel heavier, itchier, smellier, and so much harder to carry. My social anxiety was awful, I couldn't connect to my fellow creative peers like I thought I could. However, when I felt like I was alone, this album kept me company. Despite the powerful and sinister feeling these songs give me, it comforted me when I needed it the most. It felt like my feelings were heard and felt, expressed in music I can listen back from my thoughts.
I Better was a song I visualized a specific narrative with these two ghosts/spectators that write down and record what they see around the city.