My Body of Years

do you ever listen to a song and feel this deep inconsolable sadness that makes your chest physically ache but yet it’s the most beautiful feeling in the world

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Wed, 20 Feb 2013 12:18:04 -0500

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miniaturesufjams: Mother Mother | Calm Me Down

Sun, 17 Feb 2013 16:05:13 -0500

miniaturesufjams:

Mother Mother | Calm Me Down

amazingmusicrising: Hannah Georgas - ‘Robotic’ Live...

Fri, 08 Feb 2013 16:44:32 -0500

amazingmusicrising:

Hannah Georgas - ‘Robotic’

Live performance, accompanied by Graham Walsh from Holy Fuck, Ryan Guldemond and Ali Siadat from Mother Mother, Ted Gowan from Tegan and Sara, and Andrew Braun from Rococode.

landocalrizzle: turns out i missed some pretty cool shots from...

Sat, 26 Jan 2013 01:14:31 -0500

landocalrizzle:

turns out i missed some pretty cool shots from mother mother too

that’ll teach me to do my cull the day after having slept very little

Love It Dissipates.

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 23:47:13 -0500

Okay, I’ve been thinking about this for a while.

Mother Mother never disappoints me with the level of complexity of their songs. The eleventh song on their newest Album, The Sticks, is a song called “Love it Dissipates”. I remember hearing this song and immensely enjoying it the first time I heard it. It’s one of those love songs where the speaker compares his lover to something and then compares himself to a complementary item. It was pretty straightforward, and yet within these parameters, the song has a depth that other comparison love songs don’t.

Take, for example, the song “All I want is You” by Barry Louis Polisar. This song is incredibly straightforward with how much the speaker in this song longs to care for his ‘bride’.

If you were a river in the mountains tall,
The rumble of your water would be my call.
If you were the winter, I know I’d be the snow
Just as long as you were with me, when the cold winds blow.

All I want is you, will you be my bride
Take me by the hand and stand by my side
All I want is you, will you stay with me?
Hold me in your arms and sway me like the sea.

What he expresses here in this song is the romanticized version of a relationship. I mean, why wouldn’t you romanticize love? It’s romantic, after all. The simplicity and child-like optimism of this song is meant to make the listener feel positive. It definitely succeeds! Personally, it makes me imagine holding a lover in my arms and looking up to the sky. It gives me the hope that there will be no problems. Sometimes we need songs like this. Sometimes it’s songs like this that bring a smile to our face and hope to our hearts.

Mother Mother, however, has never been purely about hope. What I enjoy about Mother Mother is their unique way of interpreting reality. They take every day feelings, put them to poetry and twist them up in melody.

Their song, “Love it Dissipates”, does just that. It parodies songs like “All I Want Is You” and others like it. It doesn’t mock them, but it uses their style to bring across an opposing message. Mother Mother does this elegantly.

Notice the similarities, not only in the type of lyric, but in the acoustic nature of the instrumental accompanying.

If you were a country, I’d be your flag
If you were a smoke, I’d be your drag
And if you were a junkie, I’d be your fix
If you were a critic, I’d be your pick

I mean what I say when I say I’d be your anything, baby

If you were a picture, I’d be your frame
If you were the wounded, I’d be your pain

The song begins in a generally positive manner, the speaker would be anything for their lover. Later on, he mentions that he would be everything for his lover, and we are given a taste just what everything truly means. People often claim that their lover means everything to them. Everything includes pain and heartache. Everything includes the cells for the convicts, the kill for the guns, the pills for the party.

Mother Mother explores the other side of the word “Everything” when it comes to love, and they do so in an elegant manner.

Not just the Lyrics, of course, but the music helps to bring out their point. It’s sung slowly, thoughtfully. To me, the speaker seems nostalgic. The sound of glasses being stacked in the background, the echo of the voices and the guitar make it seem like a lonely, empty bar. This was obviously intentional. The love that was being described was personal, and they wouldn’t want to sing that in front of a huge crowd. The speaker is in a small, empty bar, half-whispering about the death of the relationship.

Perhaps the empty bar is what his soul feels like after this relationship. Maybe he feels like he is filled with alcohol and devoid of people. He’s alone with the silence and emptiness and numbing agents. This song is meant to make you feel empty, and it succeeds in doing so.

Both of these songs are good, in their own respects. Though they are similar, they serve different purposes and speak to different audiences. Love it Dissipates is not a song for a smiling couple. All I Want Is You is not meant to be a break-up song. It seems that “Love it Dissipates” is a sequel to “All I Want Is You”. “All I Want Is You” believes in forever. “Love it Dissipates” proves that forever may not always exist. Love could have been there once before, but it dissolved. It’s gone. Forever is a myth.

I mean what I say. When I say.

Love, it dissipates.

babydontdance: Acoustic album please thanks ok

Mon, 21 Jan 2013 17:37:28 -0500

babydontdance:

Acoustic album please thanks ok

My band, my favorite band compiles videos together, puts their...

Fri, 18 Jan 2013 16:43:24 -0500

My band, my favorite band

compiles videos together, puts their track over it, and it just

I’m really at a loss for words right now just how beautiful this video is

I want to talk about each Mother Mother song individually. I want to dissect the lyrics like a high...

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 02:51:32 -0500

I want to talk about each Mother Mother song individually. I want to dissect the lyrics like a high school English teacher. The lyrics in the songs that they write are a major factor in my desperate love for this band.

I think I want to work my way backwards, from The Sticks.

csticcoart: Dumb doodles of a devil dude personification of the...

Sun, 13 Jan 2013 00:19:02 -0500

csticcoart:

Dumb doodles of a devil dude personification of the band Mother Mother.

Listen to some rad music ok??? For me???

There’s god-awful shitty feeling of dread in my heart

yeah, it’s got a lot to do with not having finished what I start

Wrecking Ball, Wisdom, Dread in my Heart, Little Pistol

I may have been shamelessly inspired by some of Dendril’s work.

babydontdance: So Brian Van Wyk, an amazingly talented...

Sun, 13 Jan 2013 00:09:09 -0500

babydontdance:

So Brian Van Wyk, an amazingly talented photographer (and overall excellent person) shot Mother Mother at a few of their BC shows. Click through to check out the full gallery!

You can also find him on tumblr, twitter and facebook.

brianvanwyk: This is Jasmin Parkin. Took me about 200 shots to...

Sun, 13 Jan 2013 00:07:40 -0500

brianvanwyk:

This is Jasmin Parkin. Took me about 200 shots to get this one. I was waiting for the light to hit her face perfectly. Seriously though. 200 shots.

peoplethaticouldmarry: Mother Mother: The Stand Video Shoot.

Sun, 13 Jan 2013 00:01:45 -0500

peoplethaticouldmarry:

Mother Mother: The Stand Video Shoot.

MOTHER MOTHER US TOUR (more dates coming soon)

Sat, 12 Jan 2013 23:58:40 -0500

mothermotherteam:

We’ve added in other AWOLNATION shows that have come up to the list - We have not confirmed that MM will be supporting at all of these shows. Details coming as soon as we have them.

MM US TOUR DATES (as of Jan 8)

Dates in italic are UNCONFIRMED - found AWOLNATION shows on those dates but have yet to confirm MM support.

March ?, 2013: Austin, TX (SXSW) Details coming soon!

March 20, 2013: Norfolk, VA- tickets (All Ages, under 13 to be accompanied by adult)*

March 22, 2013: Allentown, PA - tickets (All Ages) *

March 24, 2013: Buffalo, NY?*

March 27, 2013: Cleveland, OH?*

*- supporting AWOLNATION

now that the styling is over lets get this shit started with~

Sat, 12 Jan 2013 23:55:19 -0500

now that the styling is over

lets get this shit started with~

something

Sat, 12 Jan 2013 23:22:30 -0500

something