Album Recommendation turned Essay on Spring

(Just a heads up, I haven't shared anything I write for like two - three years, my punctuation / grammar might be absolute dogshit and could render this whole essay unreadable, you have been warned)

I don't exactly know what purpose this has other than me wanting to talk about music and how it makes me feel, and I want to just write more, so here's some mind dribble.

I've been watching the brown grass emerge from the melting snow as Canadian spring rears it's ugly head. I've never enjoyed Spring, but that's because of the majority of it is spent watching nature recover from the Blitzkrieg of snow, Grass is brown or a heavily desaturated green, plants are nothing more than dead sprigs. The snow that lasts on the side walks are a muddy brown, thanks to the paint job provided by passing cars as they send waves out of puddles (Which there are a lot of, thanks to the shit roads of Manitoba, but that's another discussion for another day).

I've always associated Spring with dread.

But as I write this, I realize that the ugliness of Spring is only temporary, and even after the devastation from Winter, the green will return. Spring is the season of healing, of nature getting better. Even when I see it as a depressing palette of brown, the green will always return.

I went into this essay with the idea of talking about an album, and I was listening to it the whole time I was writing. I planned on talking about how the album made me feel hopeful, that things (no matter how terrible) will get better. And for but a moment, by listening to said album, everything I worry about can just vanish. Obviously, that original idea wasn't followed through as intended, but by thinking about spring, in the context of this piece of music, I described how it makes me feel better than any description could.

Godspeed You! Black Emperor's F#A# Infinity, is a beautiful album, and I beg you to set aside an hour to just take it in, you won't be disappointed.