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Rock · 2009 · 14 tracks · 1h 15m

Light Subtracts Itself

Emo Side Project

Intricate acoustic guitar tapping meets raw bedroom vulnerability. A seventy-minute document of suburban solitude and quiet, melancholic reflection.

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It’s like someone took a Midwest emo record and played it quietly in the next room while you were trying to sleep.

A fragile, hushed collection of songs that feels like a long-form meditation on being alone in a quiet house.

Tracklist · 14 Tracks · 1h 15m
01
Owls
5:46
02
Sparks Fly Up
3:52
03
Wasting Away
4:19
04
Under the Covers
3:08
05
Leaving
4:27
06
Sometimes
5:35
07
The Universe
5:48
08
Chemicals
5:01
09
Dear Moon
7:10
10
Forever Yours
6:55
11
These Old Bones
7:44
12
Learning to Sleep
5:05
13
Light Subtracts Itself
5:33
14
Epilogue
5:17
Moments Worth Waiting For
The delicate, intricate guitar tapping that opens Owls, setting a technical but fragile tone for the record.
The sprawling, seven-minute descent of Dear Moon where the repetition starts to feel like a trance.
The way the title track Light Subtracts Itself uses silence and space to emphasize the weight of the lyrics.
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