I've been having a tough year and this album has been such a crutch for me. Every time I listen to it, I feel better. I think it might be the best album I've heard in my whole life. The talent on display is unbelievable.

A most beautiful and meaningful tune 😊❤️🌈

It's that old recurring dream where you're drowning Flailing your arms out, fearful and frantic And black waves are curling and pounding Down onto your head somewhere in the Atlantic Through the fathoms below you a shadow Is gliding up towards you with singular purpose And hundreds of thousands of gallons Of ocean froth and foam as it breaks the surface Its black eyes find you almost at once You can't hide, swim away or take air into your lungs To scream for help that won't come And oftentimes I am awoken At three in the morning by screams in the attic I'll run upstairs, wrench the door open Call out a warning (and try not to sound panicked) But my hammering heart hears the voices Of spirits that tempt us, the scorn that they've spoken I'll remember the sad frightened noises Of an old friend who dreamt once of storms on the ocean And black eyes looking up from below

commenting to say I think your about me on spotify is great.

Normally I associate Duck and Cover with your apocalypse pieces but in the context of the prodigal album and Arielle story I really do see a reading for it in how abuse can get treated like an apocalypse. Something inescapable, overwhelming, something you can’t do anything about both from the perspective of Arielle and her community. For Arielle it’s ducking blows and hiding and praying it’ll pass and smothered highways that prevent her from leaving, and her friends/community it’s sharing something heavy with a room of strangers, a collective fear you all do nothing about, and pretending not to hear “you screaming through the walls last night”. All these alarms going off and all anyone does is wait until it’s over. Like the abuser is a nuclear threat or a force of nature and not something anyone could stop. “We’ll call each other friends/we’ll never speak again” for how they all failed to help Arielle or Darian. Drifting apart, never speaking up for them.

Night vale

I originally found this song through Night Vale, but I've recently listened to The Magnus Archives, and the first verse describes The Vast as an ocean/thalassophobia pretty well.

The most romantic song about dying in a nuclear explosion, bar none.

I love this song and the whole album more than I can say. I've listened to it on repeat (both the song and the album) relentlessly and it gets to me every time. I was wondering whether you'd share the chords for it? I'd love to learn it, and I think I'm quite close but can't fully figure them out.

What a criminally underrated album. An intense story told so beautifully. You deserve so much more attention.

nice weather we're having today

I love finding a song by unrelated means that I fall in love with and THEN find out it was featured on my favorite podcast

Should have been the credits music to oppenheimer.

maybe i crushed on her cuz she reminded me, shown me again my love of music..?

I really enjoyed listening to this weather. Horrifically mellow

god this song is so good. just so haunting and descriptive.

Whenever someone mentions a fear of the abyss I point them towards this song

the first chorus of this song honestly sounds like a really good metaphor for having an anxiety/panic attack or the feel of having so much pressure being put on you

i adore your music and im so happy to hear you sing again. thank you david, im so happy to have found your channel. sunken city was one of my favorite from your album-- it was the first one i ever downloaded in full off of bandcamp. ive been listening to it since. thank you for your music and i hope for more.

i love this song so personally this album is part of my brain now

Your storytelling in this album absolutely crushed me. I went in to your content completely blind and was not expecting to find maybe the most impactful album I've heard in a long long time. Thank you so much for this.

I would absolutely love to see a production breakdown on this song. There's some really creative sounds in this that I'd love to figure out.

🥰

I like how after years I still come back here and most of the folks have, just like me, known this from Nightvale.

Does anyone have the chords for this? Absolutely love this song and trying to learn it on the guitar. With a capo on 1 I think it's Cm-Bb-Fm-G for the verse but the chorus seems to do something different? Any help appreciated :)

Personal, Profane. Epic, Apocryphal. Gut wrenching. Uncompromising. Impossible to ignore. (btw, Welcome to Night Vale sent me here.)

Hey, a rare upload where we get to tell you how much we love you! <3

Bellwethers.

Heard this on the weather, suddenly felt the rain beginning to form in the corners of my eyes. Love it.

I keep thinking of the Outsider from Dishonored when I listen to this

"At his best, Wirsig is reminiscent of The Mountain Goats and Dashboard Confessional" -Guy In A Waistcoat, internet nobody

Episode 75 : Through the narrow place

My friend and I have been going through these lyrics on and off for months, making so many small connections and links among the songs. I love the poetry and the different perspectives that are woven throughout the album. One thing we were having trouble with, tough; who is "What's-His-Name" in Disclaimer? Originally, we thought it would have been Darian, but that doesn't seem to make much sense. Are there any other theories?

Great song. Is it meant to be Christian allegory or do you just find the imagery evocative?

Ah yes, the Subnautica theme song <3

It’s insane that so few people have found this. I’m sharing in hopes this gets out to others. Thank you.

Introducing this song in our D&D game with elder god themes. A disheveled, dirty bard in the back corner, unshaved with bloodshot eyes, quietly singing this song.

Thank you so much for making the songs you do. Going to go back to looping tell me how it ends now.

I just wanted to make another comment bc i am once again looping your songs for hours at a time. I just... Love them so much. Your music means so much to me. I love every single song so so so much. Your voice is just... I love the sound of you singing so much. Thank you once again for making the music that you do. I cannot say how much your music has changed my life/gotten me through dark times. Thank you so much.

i like how the piano melody at the end of Leviathan gets brought back up here

This one sounds so much like a Mountain Goats song

Hey i just want to say that your music got me though 2020 ngl, i love all your songs so so so much and have honestly probably listened to all of them over 100 times. I always pictured this song as like... Two kids (14-17ish) running away from a hunger games esque district/possibly a cult thing? I've listened to this song (according to spotify stats) so often that it's my 15th most listened song I've ever listened to lmao I love your voice so much, thank you for making music :) thank you for writing these songs, I love them all so much and out of any music I've ever listened too prodigal, black eyes, and white flash are probably my favorite songs. Have a nice day :)

Your song was on an episode of Night Vale that broke my heart. So I'm giving you all part of the blame! Thanks for the good tune.

this song goes so hard!

This song kinda makes me wanna cry now

I love this so much?? The lyrics are amazing, it's such a powerful yet calming song

Why did this disappear from Spotify?

Saw yesterday that all the artist's songs got removed from Spotify. I hope everything gets sorted out cuz this is literally my comfort song. Is there any way I can support the artist in the meantime?

Love ur music

Just saw this song was removed from Spotify (or no longer available in Canada)? It's one of my favourite songs, I hope it gets put back up :(