Tall Ships & Navigating The Anxieties Of The Mundane

When people write about the bands and movements which helped them or saved them or forever changed them there's typically an event, an anecdote, a catalyst; an instinctive reaction to something - a design or aesthetic, or even a perfunctory lyric - which just... clicks, which opens emotional pathways between music and listener and emancipates them from a muted inability to express themselves. Music we connect to - deeply, palpably connect to - is born from expressing our otherwise inexpressible....