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thepermanentrainpress · 5 months

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BRENDAN SCOTT FRIEL: 2021

2021 – Brendan Scott Friel Release Date: October 13, 2023

Track Listing:

Tiny Machines

Resolutions

Simon the Doubter

Michelle

Tuesday Morning

Let’s Get Together Soon

Cold Air

It’s Just Been a Hard Year

This is an album Brendan has put a lot of clear expression, emotion, and effort into. The production, particularly for a solo artist, is smooth yet detailed. It reminds me of Sufjan Stevens: very soft, sad, and reflective in a personal way.

There are little details in the background of the production best appreciated on headphones. The rhythm time and the horn section are examples of the subtle engineering. There's some deep bass, mellow guitar, and rising sounds that I took in more with every listen.

A major theme is the singer's grief following the loss of his father. Other subjects intertwined include the juxtaposition of fun and happy memories while grieving, and the toll Covid and quarantine took on his psyche alongside the world.

"Tiny Machines" starts off very slow before a rapid tempo change halfway through. This runs parallel with the lyrics – the contrast between trying to sleep and the symphony of thoughts occupying Brendan's head. It's an interesting and even jarring entrance with the sudden shift in style, but it sets the atmosphere for what is to come.

"Resolutions" was my personal favourite from the album. It's upbeat, detailed, and probably the most "fun" of the tracks considering the context. It's also the happiest of the stories told here. Amongst seemingly endless grief there is joy, beauty, and a meaningful connection in the world taking place. It is sparks lit up, metaphorically and literally amongst the final minutes of New Year's Eve.

The third track echoes the content of "Tiny Machines," both featuring feelings of being restless and out of control, trapped and confused, "floating away." There's some good rising trumpet halfway through, and the guitar riff stands out for being rapid. The tempo syncs up to the themes of stress – as if the guitar is a pounding heartbeat.

"Michelle" is the story of the singer's sister and his perspective on their shared loss. He reflects on their distance and failed connection. He also describes how she is processing the grief during all the other stressful aspects of life, like motherhood. While very sad in context, it also ends on a note of hope – unconditional love and support.

The string section/riff on "Tuesday Morning" is genuinely moving. One finds themself lost in sadness just from the sound of that violin. It is met with lyrics of depression, of not being able to leave your bed. All that while dealing with a dying loved one, and the guilt felt of suppressing the grief and miserable feelings.

"Let's Get Together Soon" is the tale of running into an old friend, and the understanding that comes with seeing the relationship in a new context. It's a very human story that most people go through at some point: feelings of regret in a dissolved friendship, and thinking about things you wish you'd done differently. The story describes the friend pulling away after the death of their father, and the narrator's realization and empathy of their behaviour in the aftermath. We all get older, lose loved ones, and have social relationships come and go. Brendan has captured the feeling not just lyrically, but musically and emotionally. You can really feel what's going on, almost as if it's happening to you personally.

"Cold Air" is another track reflecting on past memories, happier times, and that special feeling of being out with friends one particular night. Of course, the feeling is interrupted by a wave of grief and the narrator departing. As he walks home, he reflects on his circumstances ("What the hell am I doing here?"), aging, and what comes next. It's another wave of mixed feelings most of us go through at some point – all the more striking when processing loss. You can practically feel the cold air in the lyrical description.

The final track is simple lyrically and musically. It concludes stating the obvious – "It's Just Been a Hard Year" and the absence that comes with losing a loved one is overwhelming. Where do you go? What are your blessings? Are you processing the grief properly? When will you feel better? These are the questions the singer asks himself, and they have no easy answers.

2021 is a deeply personal album crafted with beauty and integrity. It isn't exactly something you can dance to, and one should be in the right headspace to listen to it. Nevertheless, it's lovely and cathartic.

Written by: Cazzy Lewchuk

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lyss-butterscotch · 4 months

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V1 finds a weird looking dog in hell

#idk man what if there were teacup earthmovers #tiny shiba sized war machines #that can railcannon you #yeah consider this thing hissing and yeeting its thor lightning at anything that moves #and v1 has to +chargeback to deflect the shot #i see anything remotely animal like and im just #its just a lil guy #ultrakill #ultrakill spoilers #v1 #ultrakill v1 #v1 ultrakill #earthmover #earthmover ultrakill #krita #my art #lyss art

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nocturnal-stims · 8 months

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Margays are small felines that spend most of their lives in the trees. Margays can rotate their ankles 180 degrees, allowing them to climb down trees headfirst. They have been observed jumping up to 12 feet horizontally and have been known to mimic the voices of infant monkeys so they can eat the parents.

🐾 1minuteanimals on IG

#margay #cats #felines #animals #rain forest #south america #nature #trivia #stim #owl post #animal stim #nature stim #look at him go #tiny spotted death machine #nature's favorite menace #wild cats

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carpetbug · 2 months

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more Duvet brain rot! Gotta have a lie at the ready when you time travel to take care of your literal inner child 🐇

and a bonus

#carpetbug art #miraculous #miraculous ladybug #ml #miraculous fanart #bunny!chloe #chloe bourgeois #chloe #duvet #duvet: what I do in my burrow is my business and no one elses #ladybug: ITS A LITERAL FUCKING TIME MACHINE WHY WOULD THAT NOT BE OUR BUSINESS #you can really see i gave up on the last two panels <3 i love and hate drawing this shit is both awesome and so dumb at the same time #anyways baby chloe is hard to draw and so is crying WHEN ITS ALL SIMPLE AND TINY #ignore me i just make myself do things the hardest possible way every time #i know the burrow is the same for all rabbit holders but idk. Duvets burrow is all disorganized and chaotic to me

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textless · 24 days

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It's the most wonderful time of the year - baby praying mantis season!

I haven't posted any new photos in a month or so for reasons, not least that it's been fun to look through old pictures and give them another chance at love, or views, or whatever. But yesterday I spotted the first praying mantis babies of the season, and that calls for a change of pace. Shoot, I think it should be a holiday.

The earliest I have ever seen mantis babies here is April 14. So, April 21 is right on time. I found at least five individuals, and they are so tiny and well-camouflaged that it certainly means there are lots more I haven't seen.

Hooray, and happy Baby Mantis Season!

Cochise County, Arizona, April 2024.

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mipexch · 3 months

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so happy...

#why is it still alive #its as if by killing the swordsmachine i freed some tiny machine that was scrapped inside of it #literally jumping for joy #ultrakill

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renardsruses · 4 months

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It’s the first Wolfwood Wednesday of the year babey!!!

#happy wolfwood wednesday #he lives on a constant spin cycle in the washing machine that is my brain…soggy #cowboy wolfwood the man that you are #wolfwood our beloved #I wanna reread trigun and trimax this year to get my heart ripped to tiny pieces all over again #wolfwood #trigun fanart #nicholas d. wolfwood #trigun wolfwood #nicholas d wolfwood #cowboy wolfwood #my art #renardsruses #renardsrusesart #trigun #as much as I love colors sometimes things just call for b&w idk

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arcanegifs · 1 year

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Wanna join me? Come and play… Hi, Jinx 💣

#arcane jinx #jinx #jinx arcane #jinx league of legends #arcane #netflix arcane #arcane netflix #type: gif #media: arcane #twitter promo video #tiny skrunkly... lil babie.... protecc her #i mean she has pow pow the machine gun to protect her but still... babie...

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waste-iisolation · 15 days

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ulrakil

#MACHINE. NO MORE PONY RIDE. MY BACK HURTS. MACHINE PLEASE #art tag #mine #ultrakill #v1 ultrakill #gabriel ultrakill #tiny v1 truthers rise

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venomous-qwille · 11 months

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Cleaned up a little magma drawing of some of the boys from Ghost in the Machine AU. This is Sol, Misuta and Fool! Full original page under the cut. I had soooo much fun talking GITM with you guys and all the little misuta doodles make my heart go brrrr!!!

#all the tiny misutas give me life #weekly magma #qwilledraws #gitm au #ghost in the machine au #fnaf dca #fnaf moon #fnaf sun #fnaf daycare attendant #fnaf security breach #fnaf eclipse #misuta moon #fool eclipse

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tiny-q3ust · 1 month

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#au #qftim au #babqftim au #tiny quest au #the quest au #babqftim #bendy and boris the quest for the ink machine

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gabe-lovebot · 8 months

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how do we kill this thing

#two war machines looking at each other #hey gays let's play spot the blue robot which i won't tag because it's too tiny #i showed this to my dad and he says it looks like something you'd find at a dentist's office and honestly? yeah. yeah i can see that #anyways I WAS ALREADY HYPED FOR VIOLENCE BUT THIS IS SOMETHING ELSE ENTIRELY #HOW DOES HAKITA MANAGE TO SUBVERT MY EXPECTATIONS EVERY SINGLE TIME #my doodles #ultrakill #earthmover #earthmover ultrakill #ultrakill spoilers

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berlingotesque · 11 months

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While I prepare my asks’ answers, please have this self-indulgent doodle of the music department, when all was still well and Jack and Norman could bully Sammy in peace + some Thomas and Wally art, because I periodically forget that they hated each other and still had to see each other seven days a week.

Also Susie’s here.