“Flights” by Falling Up, Friday, November 1, 2024 + November Playlist (Spotify Edition)

 

It’s time to play mixologist again and set my plan for the new month. This month, I decided to balance bleakness and hope. With its shortening days and gloomy weather, I’ve always found November to be one of the most depressing months. This year, the extra anxiety of the U.S. presidential election also influenced my picks. I always hold the power to shift songs around and change up the formula, and the next few weeks may do that for me. I tried to balance the nostalgic, the dark, and the shiny without giving a feeling too much weight. There’s a contrast I tried to build--the cold outside and warmth. Today’s song “Flights” by Falling Up, starts the month in a misty morning haze that is as mysterious as the day after Halloween, All Saints Day. Tomorrow, we’ll hear Jeremy Zucker’s anxiety lament “a dying world,” which turns into a warm hymn of hope. The playlist will shift to Stone Temple Pilots’ “Interstate Lovesong,” a nostalgic post-grunge ‘90s hit. The playlist will take several shifts from there with some of my go-to artists and a few new entries. 

I don’t have much to say about today’s song, “Flights” by Falling Up. The song was one of the minor hits from the album, and when I saw Falling Up play at Cornerstone, Jessy Ribordy forgot the lyrics. They’re pretty forgettable, to be fair--it’s all atmosphere. So in the absence of words, just enjoy as the scene of November is set. It’s going to be a month of tension.