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listen normally i’m not one for christmas (i mean, i’m jewish) or for christmas songs (so overplayed gaaah)
BUT.
the new christmas couplet by the altogether????
the ONLY valid christmas songs.
hello i am calling all fans of the altogether!!!
pspspsps content (i took ages to explain what and why it is which is why there is a cut)
please open it if you want jonah and sierra’s covers of good songs and one (1) original jonah creation
basically if yall arent already aware, the altogether has an instagram where they’ve been doing some fresh funky instagram lives and sometimes they do good covers of songs in those instagram lives
i got tired of running back to instagram every time i wanted to hear them so here they are! (i was unfortunately only able to grab the saved ones, so i did not get jonah’s cover of see the day, which was as painful to me as it is to you. jonah save your practice streams challenge.)
these feature more of jonah and sierra than most people see!! and lemme tell u sierra scott is a talented motherfucker and i love her SO much. yall need to stop sleepin on them because brian is very good but sierra and jonah deserve some of that Lime Light
i have uploaded to youtube unlisted, more or less in order:
- their cover of canyon moon by harry styles
-their cover of from here on out by the killers
- an unfinished original song called bad news, by jonah
- their cover of on melancholy hill by gorillaz
UHHH CONFIRMED SILO VINYL???
you will find meee waiting here/for some sign Nick and Manny won/nine footballs for their wayward son --17776 anon
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hey um,,, i learned how to use audacity’s time shift tool to make this because i thought it would hurt a lot but be viscerally...
HOW TO USE YOUR EXTENSIVE LOVE OF THE ALTOGETHER TO SLEEP
i’m serious! so i suffer from ptsd and as a result get some pretty fun and funky fresh nightmares. i frequently have trouble falling asleep because i’m busy remembering last night’s Fucked Up Shit or wondering what new Fucked Up Shit my brain’s gonna give me tonight. i’m not saying this has cured me- my nightmares still exist, trust me- but it’s made it a lot easier to sleep
step 1. getchurself the entire silo album. it’s on spotify, apple play, and bandcamp! grab it real quick. make sure it’s not on shuffle. u got it? good
step 2. at your desired time play the album starting from decatur street. don’t worry if you’re not sleepy yet or if you’re restless.
step 3. use the first 3 songs to get grounded. pull the blanket over your shoulder so you don’t get cold. take a deep breath. get your cat to stop turning your desk chair into a fillet. remember that you forgot your retainer. if you’ve settled in and brown of gold isn’t over, focus on the background of the songs- jonah and brian and sierra are masterminds with layering. have you noticed the tambourine in ladybug yet? no? notice it.
step 4. use the next 6 songs to sleep. they’re quieter and calmer, and still have enough background that if your brain runs off with something, you can redirect your attention to focusing on every note in the alto line from follow through or the bassline in bigger sky. count along with the stupid slow 3/4 time in 10/31. if your brain works best with a goal (like mine does,) try to be asleep by the end of “must be a dream.” it helps me to convince myself to stay still and keep my eyes shut that way.
step 5. and hey, if you aren’t asleep by track 10, you’ll probably end up crying yourself to sleep with see the day anyway, so there’s always that! i’ve personally never made it that far and it’s been a week or so.
anyway the only downside of this i’ve found is that i’ve very quickly familiarized myself with tracks 1-7 while i still dont know all the words to newton’s first? but thats like. minor stuff. i have it on good authority this works with anxiety-related insomnia too (and maybe with regular insomnia? i dunno! go find out)
now good night, everyone, and i hope this helps!
OKAY GUYS this thought just popped into my head…. Brown of Gold is the sequel to Emelina, Right or Wrong
feel like pure shit just want to wake up tomorrow morning with eyelids of lead have someone pull up the blankets to cover my head and think i might be dreaming or i might be dead but my heaven is fl
the trumpet solo in the new version of ladybug breathe if you agree
Ladybug by the altogether is going to be available on Spotify and I am trying to come to terms with that
Hello! In doing my duty to the Altogether community, I have converted the song Sophie to 8d audio. I hope you enjoy, and make sure to check out the Altogether on spotify/youtube!
i’m back on my the altogether bullshit
anyway follow through is criminally underrated and should be on spotify
when brian david gilbert said “build a quilt from all who have loved me”
Jonah calling the upcoming album "LP1" has me feeling some kind of way
Me? Listening to "Billy & Anne" by The Altogether on repeat, chasing the unnamed feeling the song fills me with?
It's more likely than you think.
thinkin about forever endeavor and about how it’s about letting your family grow up and find a new family an accepting that family as your own, and about how even if you don’t know someone well and it’s kind of weird to share space with them you have one thing in common and it’s how much you love your mutual family member/ best friend/ romantic partner and you know you can love them just as much because of how much you love your family
“needless to say, we’ve taken time
used it to make our smiles align
still your emotions changed on a dime
our love was red, the world was blue
love was impatient, now we’re through
there’s only one thing left to say this time:
i hope you’re fine
goodbye”
Does the last chorus of clean slated state tear into everyone's souls and rip out a lonliness and yearning you thought was gone but really was just buried deep within or is that just me?
when the altogether was like just leave me in this perfect town to stay
the heavy piano chords behind "do you need a new me / 'cause i've got two or three / and they'll only be here until / my clean slated state"........im losing my mind
Clean Slated State but it’s playing through a radio on a rainy day while you’re sat on a porch.
Heavily inspired by this youtube vid which was made first,,, I just wanted a try at it and realised a little too late
liking bdg and having mental illness b like:
*copes by watching dances moving*
*rewatches gill and gilbert*
*rewatches unraveled*
*listens to clean slated state and cries*
Emelina, Right or Wrong really has everything you need in a song, fun verse, funky little jukebox soundin’ interlude, a chorus that doesn’t match the tone of the verses at all but somehow works completely, incredible harmonies, tambourine I think
i, for one, well, i haven’t seen the sun in…. gosh, days, or maybe even months,
Night, are you here again?
Night, won't you let me in?
I have lied here waiting
But when I lay me down to rest
It's part of some eternal jest
Though since you left me here, I've grown
I still wish I weren't here alone
can i just like, notice that literally every single song the altogether (and even its individual members by which i mean bdg) has produced literally SLAPS?? like, they have no bad songs. what the crap.
like, yeah, you’ve got classics like clean slated state’s “do you need someone, do you need a new me?” but then also like
billy and anne, arguably one of my least favorite of their songs, still goes hard: “and i don’t care what you say/the world looks beautiful today”
this manhattan man has incredible lyrics: “what better place to make mistakes than an island already filled with heartbreaks?”
but then also, like, in older songs? like, ladybug? ladybug SLAPS. the rhythm! the groove! the beatboxing and the buildup! the line “everywhere i’m lookin i see polka dots!” a Bop!!
and then ofc you have bri’s other work, with things like the humble knight with beautiful imagery and a good story- “trapped in a hard shell of onyx and gold/with heart as light as a dove” and disclaimer, which literally sums up ever feeling i’ve ever felt about coming with a lot of baggage into a relationship: “‘cause i’ve never met a girl/that makes me feel i’m on a tilt a whirl/and i’ve never felt so pleasantly ill”
anyway what im saying is. i appreciate the hell out of the altogether for being incapable of producing bad music
