evermore

for a while i probably would've said folklore was my favorite album but in the past few weeks i've be relistening to evermore quite a lot more and i think ultimatley realized that while folklore has a special place in my heart for the positive memories i have around it, it's evermore that makes my heart hurt

• willow

this feels like a really great transition song between folklore and evermore, like i think it probbaly could have gone on folklore but....

• champagne problems

...then we get dragged into the real sadness of the album, and how she's really exploring the darker side of the relationships she had sung so happily about before, or romanticized the sadness of in folklore

• gold rush

i really like this song but i struggle to articulate exactly what it is about it

• 'tis the damn season

i think this song captures really well the difference between folklore and evermore, like this song wants to be a holiday romance and a fantasy like we would've had in folklore, but is jsut absolutely jaded by the reality of the situation

• tolerate it

i first heard this song at like 6am while i was making breakfast and i cried into my eggs

• no body, no crime

this is a song i get drunk to with a friend and we reenact the story

• happiness

i genuinely feel like this is a song whose chorus feels like a gentle slap to the face for me

• dorothea

this song makes me feel really happy for some reason, i feel like i have a lot of dorotheas of friends i fail to keep in touch with, friends we're too busy to always talk, but that i would gladly welcome into my life whenever

• coney island

this song feels so dense with imagery in a way that makes it harder for me to listen to while doing anything else, like i just need to sit with the song and let it wash over me

• ivy

somehow this feels like the bad ending to love story, like where the couple doesnt get to run away, and honestly a top song from the album for me

• cowboy like me

genuinely, i think this is the best storytelling she does in any song, just filled with sensory details and enough to clue the listener into what's going on, but still so much that's left unsaid ALSO i would have committed a crime to be able to see her sing this live with marcus mumford

• long story short

i think this is the most autobiographical she gets and its the song that makes me jump around and wiggle my head the most

• marjorie

as someone who loves her grandmother so much and is so deeply scared for the day i will have to grieve her, this song is an incredibly hard listen

• closure

i love the lyrics to this song a lot, and i think if i heard this at a different point in my life it would have been a favorite, but something about it doesn't reach the same peak for me

• evermore

out of her two duets with bon iver, i find myself coming to this one less and i cant tell why? i think i may just love exile more

• right where you left me

every time i listen to this song i cry because i feel so viscerally that i am always going to be stuck in the past, in the feeling i can never take back, and i haven't heard a song really capture it in such a beautiful way before

• it's time to go

this song just doesn't strike the same chord the rest of the album does for me, but i think it rounds out the end of it nicely