Crucial Track for July 13, 2025

"Van Occupanther" by Midlake

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I was a 3D artist in LA rollerblading to work at the time of this album's release, and I hated it at first. Midlake's first album very much like a lofi Radiohead, and I was ready for this album to be them heading towards a Kid A phase. Instead, it's like a concept album about living a hardworking homesteader life in early America, and I ended up loving it. I now mark this as the moment in time my life spiraled into becoming a crypto-fronteirsman Americana superfan with a clawhammer banjo habit

"Oh let me not be too consumed with this world. Sometimes I want to go home and stay out of sight for a long time"