5. Alicks - “my dad wants to fight me”

This song is enveloped in a shroud of mystery. I only discovered it by accident. However, the moment I did I found myself irreparably entranced by everything it is. It has a unique and ethereal beauty to it – a sort of delicate sweetness or coy and melancholic chillness that makes it impossible to ignore. It’s an introverted track, much like the mastermind behind it, retreating away and evaporating from sight before it really even has time to resonate and take complete shape. However, the slight taste it gives is like witnessing the sweetest and most transient of dreams. You never want to leave. You wish that you could stay wrapped within it forever. You feel at peace, like you finally found a place or rather a state of mind that you can call home, and yet at the same time you don’t really even know what it is that you’re experiencing. You can’t quite grasp the magnitude of what it is. It’s too big and fragile to truly understand or comprehend. All you can do is try and let your soul embrace it – which really means soaking within the moment and letting it embrace you. It’s a moment of solitude, of reflecting upon existence and seeing something deeper –  something both dark and beautiful, emanating from who you are and yet swallowing you whole, simultaneously carrying you forward and suffocating you with every passing day of your fragile and slowly expiring existence.