hissing

there's a new of montreal album out and the song I've heard from it really draws into stark relief the span of time between now and when I was first listening to them. There's nothing particular to the lyrics or anything here that makes me think this. Rather, it's just the sort of wistful interludes here plus the fact that they're simply still chugging along. Here's the video

I started with satanic panic in the attic, but hissing fauna is the album that brings up the most for me. I was hanging out a lot with my friend Samantha at the time. She was sort of an it-girl in the seattle music scene for a second, dating some record label guy and we would hang out at sonic boom, go to shows together, and she loved this album.

This wasn't very edgy, it was on the safer, establishment side of things. She was in a sorority, was from fancy Issaquah and her family was from Liechtenstein. But it was fun being carefree and cool in this world for a bit, even if it was a little alien to me