![]() I’m not saying that For Long Tomorrow is best at that. Nevertheless, one of toe‘s biggest qualities as a band is the inviting nature of their art. There is definitely a lot happening on For Long Tomorrow, the album I’m talking about in this text, somehow, and there are moments in which it can get overwhelming. Not only did they spark my interest in Japanese music in the first place, an interest that turned into a full-grown and luckily healthy obsession over the years, but it let me determine a quality in art that I cherish to this day as probably the most precious, at least in books: the symbiosis of accessibility and complexity. The process of getting into their music and their whole approach to being artists and a band is still ongoing, and I don’t boast when I say that it influenced me more than any other experience I had with music. It was this time that I learned about toe. A new level of humility formed inside of me, reflecting on how ‘vast’ my knowlegde about music really is and coming to the understanding that the more you delve into art in general, the more you realize that its shapes and forms are basically endless, and that learning about it and getting surprised by it is the real joy. During this time, I experienced a lot of readjustment and re-evaluation over my relationship to music and what I get from it. Or to rephrase, about what I was searching for in music. After a couple of years, I was maybe 21 or 22, I felt some distance building between my favorite band and how I felt about music. Even a tattoo with some lyrics was in the making, at least in my head. Colors had really strong impact to my younger self, fulfilling my interests in progressive music and metal equally. To put into words how much this album, how much this band means to me, I have to reach back a bit more.Īround 10 years ago, my favorite band for certain was Between The Buried And Me. Writing about toe means more to me than just praising a good album.
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