East River Pipe - “My Life is Wrong” from Shining Hours in a Can
Many thanks to Greg for putting me on to this one. I’ve long been a fan of Merge Records and feel they are one of the few labels that release consistently good records and have for a long time, so I’m surprised I never bothered to check out ERP.
Though I didn’t have the same experience with this song as Greg, I can easily see this song fitting into my life in a similar way. It has conjured up similar feelings of melancholy, hope, and self-awareness as I listen to it at work and think about the direction of my life. It’s annoying that the same thoughts that plagued me at 19, or 21 or 25 still consume a majority of my thoughts now. I assumed by this point in my life I would have figured things out, but life keeps moving and I keep reassessing what it is I truly want. Perhaps that won’t ever change and maybe it shouldn’t. Something about people who possess that inherent certainty about the future has always been extremely enviable to me though.
