I love this album and always seem to come back to it every October. I can’t believe it’s been 9 years since it came out. This album means so much to me I love her. My favorite song is Control but there’s not a single skip this album is perfect.
Also! Open your heart, the b-side to this album also deserves love
I’m in my feelings in the worst way right now. Halcyon Blues is a fucking flawless album. Easily top 3 albums of the year for me, and my most listened to album this year. I was shocked when I first listened to it because not everything Citizen writers resonates with me musically.
But holy fuck, this new album.
With that said, it came out while I was dating someone, and now that things between us have ended, listening to it is already becoming painful. And I guess I’m posting this because I’m not only in pain about the loss of my connection with someone I’ve known for two decades, but also because I’ve never experienced the need to stay away from listening to an album for my mental health and simultaneously craving hearing it because I love it so much at the same time. I think I’ll need to take a 6-month break from listening to it. And it just sucks. I love this new album so much. It’s just too close to home and emotionally unsafe at the moment, every single word of it is 100% a mirror of my recent relationship.
This post is dumb. I guess I ask that you all listen to Halcyon Blues for me since I won’t be able to do so for quite some time.