![]() It’s so epic and grandiose that when you look at the clock and realize not even a half hour has gone by since you pressed play, it briefly throws you for a loop, sort of like when you have a long, confusing dream, then you stare at your alarm clock at wonder how the hell only 15 minutes had gone by.īy the time those 29 minutes were over, I felt like my life was in a completely different place than when they had started, because I had every insecurity that I was desperately trying to shove into the back of my mind for the last five months laid out before me. I realized that sounds like an insult, but I intend it as the highest praise. Is Survived By is only 29 minutes long (which was still 10 minutes longer than their first two albums), but it feels a lot longer. I thought about buying the LP, but decided to save money by buying the CD, a decision I would regret as soon as I actually listened to the album. I bought the Touche Amore album based on some positive reviews, and because I knew they were the band that inspired Thursday’s “ Stay True,” one of my favorite songs from a few years earlier. So I took my $88 check to the record store across the street from my old college campus and went hunting. Hey, a few weeks earlier I didn’t even have the job at least things were getting better. What was truly pathetic about this situation was that I was actually happy about it. When I heard this album, I was five months removed from graduating from college, and the closest thing I had to a job was an extremely part-time gig at the liquor store near my house. ![]() That album was Touche Amore’s Is Survived By. Just when I thought my enjoyment of music from here on out was destined to be less emotional and more academic, I heard an album that brought back all those super-heavy ninth-grade feelings that I had given on up on trying to recapture. Let’s be honest, those angsty middle school and high school years are when music hits you the hardest, and anything after that never quite has the same effect. When you’re 15 or 16, and a song blows your mind because that’s how I feel about, like, the world and stuff. ![]() When you’re 12 or 13 and a song blows your mind because that’s how I feel about that girl in my math class. Don’t get me wrong, I’d still discover new bands and enjoy them, and there were still some important records from the past that I was planning on getting around to, but I figured that teenage feeling was gone. By the time I reached age 23, I kinda figured I was done being truly blown away by music.
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