February was a cold month, but the songs I discovered weren't.
Hey, it's March! It rained yesterday morning, and all I could think about was the fact that Spring's on it's way. It'll be warmer weather, flowers blooming, birds chirping - a season I can't wait to have come.
Some of my favourite albums that were released this past month were Velvet Skyline's What We Have In Common, Riot Course's Maybe I'll See You Next Year, Julien Baker's Little Oblivions, and Sydney Sprague's maybe i will see you at the end of the world. All female-fronted artists, which wasn't even intentional - women just make the best rock music.
I don't have much to say, February was a slow month. Truth be told, I found myself in a depressive episode mid-month, and that's why posts on here faltered off. It'll end, I'll feel better soon, this happens almost every single month for me, but when it happens it's hard. It's been so hard, almost too hard to write about music. Mental illness, specifically bipolar disorder type 2, is something I've battled for a decade, and if anything I've learned from it is that I'll be alright. There's a quote from a book I love called Ordinary People by Judith Guest that I try to remember when the world gets too heavy for me to handle: "It is not necessary to pull the whole world in on top of you, it is only necessary to finish with Tuesday night."
I believe in that quote so much. To me, it's a reassurance that it'll be okay, you just need to finish with one night, not solve all of your pain at once, because tomorrow's a new day, a fresh new start to try again.
March will bring more sunshine and reviews & other posts on this site. There's so much music that I'm excited for to be released this month, and so much from last month that I'll write about as well. Speaking of last month, for now, here's my top ten favorite tracks from February:
1) What Weighs on You - ZIG MENTALITY
2) Only Wanna Be With You - Post Malone
3) i refuse to die - Sydney Sprague
4) Gasoline (feat. Taylor Swift) - HAIM
5) Pearls - Riot Course
6) Echoing - Kings of Leon
7) Rock and Roll Heaven - The Pretty Reckless
8) Heat Above - Greta Van Fleet
9) Last Child - Dirty Honey
10) Relative Fiction - Julien Baker
See you next month, and, I hope you stay healthy (and loud, always loud)!
with love,
Cherri Cheetah.
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