Love Letters from the Island of St. Helena

For those who don’t know, Saint Helena is an island in the South Atlantic Ocean. Being a remote island, it was used by the British as a place of exile. Napoleon I was probably the island’s most famous inhabitant. As many know, I recently drowned in a crushing torrent of depression. Rescue required me to leave the city where I had begun my true adult life, and return to the backwoods of Baltimore Count, to live under the watchful eyes of my parents.

This mixtape attempts to convey the range of emotions I’ve been experiencing, along with channeling a bit of high school nostalgia, since that was the last time I was in Baltimore for a significant period. What is most important, though, is the pervasive sense of loneliness. Because the loneliness is the worst. The loneliness is always there.

Love Letters from the Island of Mount St. Helena

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Tracklisting:

01 “A Favor House Atlantic” // Coheed and Cambria // In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth (2004)
02 “Inertiatic Esp” // The Mars Volta // Deloused in the Comatorium (2003)
03 “Sowing Season (Yeah) // Brand New // The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me (2006)
04 “Same Blood” // The Academy Is… // Santi (2007)
05 “Living in Exile” // Sleater-Kinney // The Hot Rock (2009)
06 “Fast as You Can” // Fiona Apple // When the Pawn… (1999)
07 “Hide and Seek” // Imogen Heap // Speak for Yourself (2006)
08 “That Summer, At Home I Had Become The Invisible Boy” // The Twilight Sad // Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters (2007)
09 “Coming Down” // Dum Dum Girls // Only in Dreams (2011)
10 “Water and Sleep” // Mirah // You Think It’s Like This, But Really It’s Like This (2000)
11 “Get Me Away From Here, I’m Dying” // Belle and Sebastian // If You’re Feeling Sinister (2010)
12 “Whipping Tree” // The Dandy Warhols // …The Dandy Warhols Come Down (1997)

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