Postcards - Fossilized

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🗓️ 17 August 2020

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Postcards - Fossilized - from the 2020 album The Good Soldier on T3 Records.

Beirut-based trio Postcards continue to expand on the shoegaze sound they shared on their 2018 debut full-length I'll be here in the morning. With their latest LP, titled The Good Soldier, they explore darker post-punk territories while still keeping it dreamy with Julia Sabra's angelic vocals. In an interview with Joy Zine, she revealed the story behind today's Song of the Day:

"The first track we wrote for this album, right after our first full-length came out, and it’s one of those tracks that had like 5 different versions before we settled on this one. There’s a lot of underlying tension in the music. Initially it started out as a way to talk about my anger issues, how in a matter of minutes everything turns sour, how it all fades within a couple of hours, and the inevitability of the whole cycle. Eventually as I was writing and re-writing it, the song shifted towards more of a shared anger about the living situation in Lebanon – the feeling of wanting to fight but also knowing you won’t be able to change anything."

Lebanon recently endured one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history, leaving 170 people dead, over 6,000 people injured, and more than 300,000 people displaced from their homes. The band report that they're safe, but add, "Our city and its people are in ruins. Please donate if you can."

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0:00.0	And I'm Oh, Another song. Another summer that lingered into fall
0:35.0	that lingered into fall,
0:41.0	a dream of water.
0:49.0	My solution is a solution of it all. And then it disappears.
1:00.0	And I am on. And I am on an island.
1:05.0	So there should be where we have the strong. Stay out of sight with our sons.
1:29.0	You have our sons.
1:30.0	You will be alright. Only you are alive, if only for. Oh, I called on the upper side down, I searched for all his songs?
2:07.0	If I could buy them, we'd wash them for.
2:15.0	So let the river's.
2:20.0	So let the river flood,
2:24.0	and all the same drown.
2:29.0	I hope we never drive.
2:35.0	See my heart of sight,
2:40.0	with our sight, with our sight. Do you be all right?
2:45.0	Be all right,
2:49.0	is only for a one.
2:50.0	There's only for. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, I see our side.
3:25.0	our side.
3:27.0	with your sorrows.
3:30.0	With your sorrows and will be on. We are.
3:35.0	in person.
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