Stick Season was one of my most-anticipated album releases of the year and I am happy to say that it exceeded my high expectations. This album is everything I wanted and more. This is, absolutely, a no-skip album and I will be listening to it on repeat for the foreseeable future. I listened to the entire album for the first time during my drive to New Hampshire over fall break. The drive was so scenic with beautiful fall foliage, which was the perfect backdrop for listening to Stick Season. I absolutely love every single song on the album so ranking them was a difficult task, but I did my best. Below are my current rankings and favorite lyrics from each song. If you haven’t listened to Stick Season yet, go listen!
- New PerspectiveÂ
“Gave me your word and now I can’t pronounce it
No thing’s so sure that I can’t learn to doubt it”
- Growing SidewaysÂ
“Oh, if my engine works perfect on empty
I guess I’ll drive
I guess I’ll drive”
- HomesickÂ
“I got dreams but I can’t make myself believe them
Spend the rest of my life with what could have been
And I will die in the house that I grew up in”
- All My Love
“We once sang,
Retrograde, we’d shake the frame of your car
Now I know your name, but not who you are
It’s all okay
There ain’t a drop of bad blood, it’s all my love”
- Northern AttitudeÂ
“If the sun don’t rise
‘Til the summertime
Forgive my northern attitude
Oh, I was raised on little light”
- Â Stick Season
“And I’ll dream each night of some version of you
That I might not have, but I did not lose
Now you’re tire tracks and one pair of shoes
And I’m split in half, but that’ll have to do, ooh, ooh”
- She Calls Me Back
“Lost for a long time
Two parallel lines
Everything’s alright when
She calls me back, she calls me back
When she calls me back”
- Everywhere, EverythingÂ
“It’s been a long year
And all of our book’s pages dog-eared
We write out the ends on our palms dear
Then forget to read”
- Orange Juice
“That the world has changed
And don’t you find it strange
That you just went ahead and carried on?”
- Come Over
“And my house was designed to kinda look like it’s crying
The eyes are the windows, the garage is the mouth”
- The View Between Villages
“It’s just me and the curve of the valley
There is meaning on earth, I am happy”
- Strawberry Wine
“If I was empty space and you were a formless shape, we’d fit
But love leaves little runway and every time we run straight over it”
- Halloween
“I collect every dream in these old empty pockets
In hope that you’ll see ’em someday”
- StillÂ
“It only falls into place when you’re falling to pieces”