Welcome,
friends, to the first installment of the Lazy Sunday series!
Basically, we’re gonna give you something short and sweet to read every Sunday
about what we’ve been grooving to that week. It’s a nice way to get a quick
music fix and a little peek into our
lives. Anyway, without further ado, let’s get to it!
Who: Lucy Schwartz
What: Keep
Me -EP
When:
Basically the last month and a half
Why: I’m
an English major and a music minor- literally the worst kind of humanities student.
Why? I’m doomed to wanting to be profound in everything I do, especially
writing. Unfortunately, my best attempts at sounding thoughtful, inspiring, and
ultimately Tumblr reblog-able, come out sounding more pretentious than that one kid in every Literature class
who finds sexual undertones in literally every scene of every book on the
curriculum (there’s always one). Anyway,
I’ve been really nostalgic lately, thinking about my time at Oxford University
and the friends I left in Britain as well as some recent changes in my life
that have given me several little epiphanies and thoughts about life. It all sounds
so wistful and pretty in my head… then I write it down aaaannnndddd it just
sounds pretentious and forced. It’s like the enchanted objects in Cinderella:
it sounds awesome in theory, but you just end up with a pile of random junk and
no idea why you ever thought it was anything but.
Keep Me is the pretty, well-written, unassuming version of my thoughts.
Lucy Schwartz masters the art of bewitching incredibly deep emotions into simple
but poetic words. This EP is a journey, my friends. Sit down and listen to it
all at once, and enjoy some extraordinary phrasing set to some truly clever
music (I’ve listened to it at least five times through this week alone and
there are still new things I’ve
noticed in the lyrics and
songwriting). It’s the “Happily Ever After” to a long search for profound
thoughts in a humble setting.
Happy
listening!
-Hanae
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