Song 31 // fats'e - "picking myself up again"
Love spirals
Like circles under my eyelids keeping me tired
The sunlight peeks through my window
And I'm trying
Lately I’ve been diving back into lesser known emo (and emo-adjacent) music. Surely the announcement of the “When We Were Young” festival weeks ago played a role into my nostalgic listening habits (and failure to procure tickets). It was during this time, when I hopped around from My Chemical Romance to Taking Back Sunday, that I stumbled upon fats’e and his “staring at the ceiling” album.
I got plans
I got friends
I got things to do
Can't even stop feeling down
Need to stay on the move
Body hurts, need insurance
But I think I'll get it soon
fats’e and his music reminds me of 2000s era Myspace emo music mixed with modern day tools and production techniques. The result is a dynamic album with several layers of intricacies that open up each time the audience listens to the album.
The slightly overlapping vocals on some of his songs will have you racing to singalong to the next line in each verse. As a whole, the songs are beautifully haunting and strained with emotion through fats’e’s vocals, instrumentals, and digital production.
The song “picking myself up again” bookends his album and provides a realistic look at trying to move on. It also compliments the opening track’s question of “when will things get better?”
I'm picking myself up again
I'm picking myself up again
I'm picking myself up again
I'm picking myself up again
Sometimes the best we can do is just continue to move.
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