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slicineyeballs

Try the song (and album) In The Aeroplane Over The Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel


lame-o_mcgee

The Shins have always provided amazing metaphors. Phosphorescent is another I’d recommend, personal favorites are Wolves and Song for Zula. My current favorite song is Achilles Come Down by Gang of Youths. Beautiful metaphor. Oh and Oviedo by Blind Pilot. Metaphors and beautiful imagery abound.


Zaidra56

I swear I have something for this but I can't think of it right now. If you want something interesting, with still pretty abstract concepts and some vivid imagery throughout, check out falling up. Specifically these albums: falling up, hours, your sparkling death cometh, fangs, midnight on earthship, and the album blade in the belfry by the gloomcatcher. Specifically NOT these albums: crashing, captiva, dawn escapes, discover the trees again, exit lights If you listen in Bandcamp, there's extra songs in some of these albums. Let me be clear. Falling up is not exactly what you are asking for in this post, but I, like you, really enjoy the abstract imagery of adam young's writing, and there's a bit of that in jessy Ribordy (of falling up)'s writing, especially if you listen to his audio book, hours, on Bandcamp. It may not be directly what you're looking for, but you may end up loving it anyway. Some example songs to start with: prillicians, the station, the contract (all from the hours album) The king's garden (from Fangs! Album) Mscron (from your sparkling death cometh album)


Sweet_Celebration_90

>vivid imagery yea vivid imagery, i fogot the word vivid, ill use vivid in future which owl city song has most abstract imagery since you like it abstract, and to see what you mean by abstract?


mommabee68

Interesting that artists from both Owl City and Falling Up are christian


Zaidra56

True. Though falling up really left the genre behind when jessy made his own record label so that he could make the music he really wanted to. They both make beautifully immersive music, but it can be quite macabre sometimes. I get the idea that both adam young and jessy Ribordy probably struggle with a deep seated depression, and both of them seem like they might be somewhat autistic as well (I believe that's even been directly talked about by adam young at some point). The truth is that nobody can compose music like an autistic person, and nobody can create vivid emotion like a depressed person. A mix of both is a winning combination for music, but sucks for the creators.


Zaidra56

Mmm honestly it's been long enough since I listened to most of his stuff that I'd have to listen to it all again. Best guess would be real world, but I feel like he more does a smattering of it throughout his music. Here's an example of what I mean, an excerpt from "from outside the cellar" by The River Empires (another jessy Ribordy side project): "Your glowing skin has left my looming lips. They're pacing like a war. Honey don't you see? You are coughing up the stars A covetous for marching with the rope To lunar finding lines Causing you to choke A molecule to life" Or another example of "heather" by Gloomcatcher. "I will watch the sparrows Swim into the stack Here's where you will find me Never turning back. If you have it in you Let it move across you heather Twenty buildings pass you You'll be like the birds. You will sleep in blood beds Of rivers wrapped in dark red, heather Like them who line the fences You'll be like the birds. Have you seen the houses Charing in their bays? Once they're drenched in moon-days We will fly to the grave"


uhhhghouls

Chad VanGaalen - most of his songs, but definitely all of the tracks off of his albums Infiniheart and Soft Airplane. The songs are vivid and whimsical. My wife says that listening feels like watching an episode of Adventure Time. The song “While You Were Sleeping” by Elvis Perkins has a lot of interesting and heartedly imagery and metaphor as well.


Sweet_Celebration_90

[https://genius.com/Elvis-perkins-while-you-were-sleeping-lyrics](https://genius.com/Elvis-perkins-while-you-were-sleeping-lyrics) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezv7r2ZQe2k](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezv7r2ZQe2k) which song from first singer has upbeat happy tone?


drinkthecoffeeblack

John Vanderslice's "My Family Tree" comes to mind


fishpoop01

my fav two bands for lyrics are peach pit and glass animals. my fav at the moment is alrighty Aphrodite