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soapcan18 · 7 months

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EVERYONE I JUST NOTICED SOMETHING REALLY COOL

So these are the Anemoi album covers, right? Do you notice a similarity between all of them?

Yes, they all have animals surrounded by a gold ring on them. Obviously there is a lot of symbolism involved with these specific animals and their respective albums, but that’s a whole other conversation.

Right now I want to point out the gold ring— more importantly, how is it changing as the albums progress?

In Notos, the thicker portion of the ring is in the bottom right corner.

In Eurus, that portion is in the top right corner.

In Boreas, it’s in the top left corner.

And in Zephyrus, it’s in the bottom left corner.

THE RING IS GOING IN A CIRCUIT!!!

The thick portion of the ring is moving counterclockwise with each album! And if you go back to Notos after Zephyrus, it’ll be right back at where it started!

This is yet another symbol of the Anemoi albums’ themes of change, cycles, etc. AND IT’S HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT!

How COOL is that??? I just noticed!!

This is even crazier when you add on the fact that the final song you listen to, after going through all the albums, is Rounds.

And what is the ring doing? MAKING ROUNDS!! Going around and around as you keep replaying the albums, repeating the cycle of summer to fall to winter to spring to summer over and over again just as The Oh Hellos intended to convey :)

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natdrinkstea · 2 years

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I'm fine <- a lie. she's listening to through the deep, dark valley

#nat chats #the oh hellos #ttddv

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ecoamerica · 19 days

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aceofroses-queenofstars · 5 months

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my conservative cousin: I'm worried that being queer will damage your relationship with God

Me, headbanging to the oh hellos: All Glory be to Christ!!! And to the earth be peace!!!! Goodwilll henceforth from God to Man!!!!! Begin and never cease!!!!

#the family christmas album Slaps #reaffirms my faith every time #same with the oh hellos ep #and ttddv and wormwood #the oh hellos #in general really #that's the kind of religion i aspire to have #that's the kind of doctrine i hold #love and joy and peace and nature and truth and kindness and Love #rose rambles

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olliecoded · 8 months

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and if i spend $150 on records. what then.

#sorryyy it's just. it's 5 records. for lionheart + cloudbusting picture disc + usa AND canada tki + ttddv anniversary edition. uhhhm #i feel like i deserve it ...#hello world

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somelazyassartist · 1 year

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The only thing with Spotify wrapped is like. I rarely ever use it compared to other places. So for me it was like "how the fuck is Soldier, Poet, King my #1 song in totality when it's in my like bottom 5 just-Oh-Hellos songs???" And then I remember oh. It's because I found it on Spotify and then just listened to the rest of their music elsewhere for the most part.

#Soldier‚ Poet‚ King is a very good song and i love it a lot don't get me wrong!!#it's just that EVERY one of their songs is really really good #so it's only that low because i have a soft spot for ttddv‚ Notos‚ and Eurus. sorry SPK #as pretty as you are the other albums (hell even different songs on the same album) make me weep and i have to pick those as my favorites

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mell0bee · 1 year

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ik no one cares but guys look can a depressed person do THIS???

#my top song was thus always to tyrants #4/5 of my top songs are toh songs all from dear wormwood (i think because that is the album i tend to start with when doing hw)#(i let it loop and then go to ttddv idk why)#the oh hellos #bee post #look i’m so normal don’t worry about it

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magnoliae · 1 year

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I really want to go to an oh hellos concert but I cannot stand to be in a room w the majority of toh fans like I will kill

#sasha.txt #I think everyone needs to gatekeep one thing in life & mine is people who refuse to engage in toh deeper than uwu cottagcore dnd themesongs #it makes me so angry like pls listen to anemoi. listen to ttddv. my god

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zannolin · 11 months

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my ttddv vinyl came in today

#zanna memes #the oh hellos

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cloak-of-holding · 1 year

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Thank you The Oh Hellos for putting out a beautiful remaster of TTDDV right as I had only had three more songs to experience before I was done working my way through the songs gradually. Perfect timing. Good stars above does The Valley (Reprise) make me feel.

#the oh hellos #neathpost #.txt

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soapcan18 · 9 months

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Thought I’d share these for anyone who hasn’t seen them :) They’re the official descriptions for each of the Anemoi albums on The Oh Hellos’ website!

Notos

Notos, the first installment in an ongoing series, is named for the ancient Greco-Roman god of the south wind, who brought storms in the summer. Musically, the record draws from the siblings' memories of summers spent exploring the Pacific Northwest with their grandparents, as well as their experiences with the frequent threat of hurricanes as they grew up on the Texas Gulf Coast. Thematically, the series considers the question: "where did our ideas come from?" Notos recounts a time when the duo weren't even aware there was a question to ask, and reflects on the backfire effect we experience when confronted with new information for the first time.

Eurus

Once that first question posed in the Notos EP is asked — "where did my ideas come from?" — it opens the floodgates to more. While wrestling with them all can ultimately lead to a fuller understanding of the world around you (and leave you with more empathy than you started with), it can also leave you feeling alienated from the communities you used to identify with. Eurus, released in early 2018 as the second installment in a series, is a continued interrogation of our own beliefs, and as Eurus was the wind most closely associated with autumn, the record seeks to capture the feelings of dark woods, dry branches, dead leaves, and wondering who had migrated — you, or your flock?

Boreas

Boreas, the northern wind, ushered in the harsh frosts of lonely winter. The arrangements of this third installment evoke images of snow-blanketed darkness, candlelight behind cupped hands, and a vast night sky ribboned with stars and auroras. As we wrote these songs, we found ourselves confronted with the ways we’ve personally and communally reflected the character of this wind — how we often avoid discomfort, even at the expense of others, until we are left cold, hard, and unfeeling. In this record, we ask the winter to instead kindle us into something warmer and softer than who we’ve been.

Zephyrus

The series concludes. Zephyrus, the final cardinal wind of this project, brought the gentle warmth of spring that summoned up a new year of growth rooted in the fertile ashes of all the structures that keep us isolated and unfeeling — the kind of growth we can see in ourselves, if we can muster the courage to be vulnerable. The arrangements mirror and embrace this shift, rising up like tender leaves breaking through concrete and cascading down like mountain rivers surging with the first thaw of the season. It’s been a long year; thanks for listening.

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hyumizi · 1 year

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the urge to buy the oh hellos ttddv 10 yr anniversary cool vinyl versus i dont have a vinyl player

#liv.txt #DO I GET BOTH FOR MY BIRTHDAY

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hannahburley · 2 years

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when the you and i we are matter and it matters hits

#the oh hellos #i flip flop on my fave anemoi ep but i think for this and soap and rio grande it’s zephyrus #tho fave album is still always ttddv

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olliecoded · 1 year

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think everyone should know im currently sitting in bed picking out an outfit to wear to a concert for a tour that in fact hasn't been announced and likely does not exist. the wistfulness of goncharov is getting to me

#its tje oh hellos. btw #they never went on tour for boreas & zephyrus and i keep hoping they will now #since theyve released the remaster of ttddv #they could do a ttddv/boreas/zephyrus tour #or just. a 10 yr anniversary tour?? and revisit everything from ttddv onwards???#im not picky #anyway hoping by picking out an outfit im manifesting the tour announcement #the oh hellos

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filia-secunda · 3 years

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when someone interprets an Oh Hellos song differently than you do:

I’ve got a venom like a snake / running out of my mouth, running out of my mouth, running out of my mouth / it’s got you burning at the stake / innocent or not, you’re not a bet I care to take

when you think about it more and they have a point:

Brother, forgive me / we both know I’m the one to blame ...

#the oh hellos #I become such a jerk when I read other people's thoughtful and incisive analysis #I'm like no THIS song is about God and THAT song is about the devil and they are NOT both about a love interest!!#I'm like no the Christianity isn't a tangent bc when ur Christian like the Heaths once were you see connections to it/Him in EVERYTHING #and I miss that the reviewer pointed out inter-album connections that are new to me and very cool #the Christians are or were just as bad #I'm like no The Valley does not have to be literally referring to one specific time period of the Bible! it's the human condition #I'm like no TTDDV is not a retelling of the Old Testament and DW a retelling of the New!#I get so riled up and then they jolt me with an opinion that's smart and has a good chance of being right or rightish

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milk-and-violets · 3 years

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What’s your favorite tohs song ?

Oh, the fatal question! I could not tell you, but I can say my top from each album, and why a few oddballs may have been my favorites at certain times.

Eponymous Album: I think I underrate this album so much, and honestly going back and thinking about these songs has me longing to go listen to the live versions again. Honestly, out of all the albums, this one was the hardest for me to pick my favorite, and it kinda ties between "Lay Me Down," and "Cold is the Night," and the only reason "Trees" isn't also vying with them is because I just want there to be more of it.

The fact that "Second Child, Restless Child" echoes concepts in "Lay Me Down" hits me every single time and I love it so much for that reason alone. It speaks to my experience as a curious, energetic child stuck in church when I was little, and the feeling of being driven away from a place because you deeply believe the word isn't how people around you say it is?? Slaps. (I may or may not be having full song analysis thoughts about that now, h e l p)

As for "Cold is the Night," see: take away this apathy / and bury it before it buries me. Need I say more? The lyrics in that one are also just. Hauntingly evocative. They feel like a lullaby sung by a knowing older self to a younger one. Or vice versa? Just thinking about "bitter is the thought of all that time / spent searching for something I'll never find" and *reminiscing on loss of faith noises*

Through the Deep, Dark Valley (TTDDV): I love so many of the songs in this album, obviously. Mostly the first 3 and the last 4. However, I can say that (partially due to my love of niche live performances) my true fave is the combo set of "The Truth Is a Cave" running into "Valley (Reprise)." Nothing like it. Sublime. Heart-threatening. Makes you wanna jump off of something like a big box speaker and throw a tambourine straight at someone's head.

Dear Wormwood: This album deserves the hype it gets, really and truly. If I want to go really nostalgic, I can listen to it all through and have the full experience of human emotion. However, the two songs from it that Really captured my heart are "This Will End" and "Thus Always to Tyrants."

"This Will End" is just.... I don't cry a lot. Almost never. But I would happy cry if I got to see that song played live. I know it. "Thus Always to Tyrants" is the song that makes me channel Maggie's Pickathon energy and dance barefoot on any available surface.

Notos: (my beloved) "Constellations" was the song that Got Me Into The Oh Hellos. I owe that song my life. That at "On the Mountain Tall." I was having a relapse into LOTR phase and I think I listened to those two songs almost exclusively for at least a week. They were my favorite songs for a solid month.

Eurus: Eurus, from Eurus. The OG. The song that got me Really into the Oh Hellos. That made me stop and go: oh Word? Passerine gets a shoutout for being my blog title and also for the METAPHOR??? Like Maggie and Tyler did Not mince words and I love them forever for that. They really said we're gonna roast prosperity gospel & harmful theology and we will take no prisoners.

Boreas: Like the above, Boreas, from Boreas. But only for the period of time before the rest of the album came out. This song gets a shoutout for being my Most Listened To Song from 2020 even though it came out like halfway through the year. I listened to that song non-stop for like three days, and then burned myself out enough that I couldn't listen to it again for about a month and half. The other song I really love from that album is "Cold," which I went feral enough over that I wrote my first lyrics analysis post about it! (Lapis Lazuli slaps too, but everyone knows that)

Zephyrus: Ahhh my white whale of an album. My favorite color. The season of my soul's aesthetic. This album was so different. So spicy and delightful. I pulled a Boreas-Boreas with "Soap", and now I find it too sweet to listen to often. I think of it quite fondly though. My favorite song from this album is, without a doubt, Rio Grande. It feels like an adventure song, which I adore so much. I think my first 5 listens gave me at least a year of my life back. I have (1) draft on tumblr and it's my 6 paragraph unfinished analysis of that song.

#religion tw #me & my relationship with religion #biggest anti uwu but it sure is spicy #the oh hellos #yes it's my reviving the tag arc u best believe #lyrics analysis #music analysis #I don't remember which of those tags I use #maybe I should fix that #place votes on the new tag #sorry this is so long btw lol!#I kinda just #had thoughts #thank u for the ask!! :)

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elahan-alastrovitz · 3 years

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The Oh Hellos and Fallen London: Through The Deep, Dark Valley

So, remember forever ago when I said I'd make a post about thematic tie-ins between the Oh Hello's discography and Fallen London? Here's part of that.

General Themes

Through the Deep, Dark Valley ponders a lot on poor choices, lingering love, searches for spiritual truth (among other things) and being born into metaphorical darkness. These themes are plentiful in fallen london, of course, and I think the album is especially poignant when connected to Seeking the Name. Given the biblical inspirations for both the album and that storyline, there's plenty of easy overlap.

The Neath is about as deep and dark a place as one gets, away from the eyes of Gods, the surface, loved ones, past mistakes, and I think TtDDV fits it very well indeed.

Specific Song... Connections? Headcanons?

This is the part where I drift into my personal associations for some specific songs on the album.

Like the Dawn: The Bazaar's infatuation with the Sun. Fairly on the nose, what with the love in the song being described almost exclusively in Sun terms, but I still enjoy the interpretation.

And you will surely be the death of me, but how could I have known?

Eat You Alive/Wishing Well: A Seeker begins to lose it all, in spite of warnings and the all-consuming cost.

In Memoriam: The Seeker goes North.

It's been a long road losing all I've owned/you don't know what you've got until you're gone/and it's a nasty habit spending all you have/but if you're doing all the leaving then it's never your love lost

The Valley/The Valley - Reprise: These ones work from a lot of angles; Seekers, those worship the gods of the zee, the faithful in the Church despite everything, but I especially like thinking about it through the lens of Neathborn characters. It's a harsh place to be brought up, but there are ways through life one can't find anywhere else.

Anyways, that's some of my loose thoughts on that, maybe someday I'll get around to talking about the other albums (but don't stay up waiting is all I'll say)

#fallen london #the oh hellos #hope the three people who were excited for this enjoy <3 #it was originally going to just. be a bunch of rambles about literally every song they'd done that i had Thoughts about #and it was insurmountable #so something smaller

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