Acid Rain / The Heights • Thomston

Good way to get the site back up and running again

This article discusses having lousy mental health.

While I’ve been away — we’ll get to that in a bit— Thomston has been amazing. In fact he did that song Acid Rain (June 8) which spent longer in the idolthreat 5 than Robyn’s return did. If you didn’t hear that song, here you go: it’s three minutes and eleven seconds of perfection, and I totally would have written about it earlier if I’d been writing. It’s probably one of the songs of the year. Sorry, Thomston.

The very good news is he’s got a new song out, called The Heights, and that, too, is excellent.

A few weeks ago Thomston was tweeting about his experience in dealing with mental health issues, and said about the song:

through 2017 there was a weight on me that I couldn’t make sense of, it would grow and shrink, ebb and flow. it would heat up and i could feel a pressure in my whole body, but it was as if my insides were slowly being replaced with a mass of empty space. i’d drive. at night. to somewhere deserted. i’d talk to myself as a way to compartmentalise my thoughts, trying to figure out what led to this feeling but it felt as though i’d never arrive there.

i realised there was a separate being in me, one that fed off self-doubt and amplified a fear of the future. he was insecure, afraid, and in need of compassion. i’d spent so much time trying to ignore him, silence him, but i never paid attention to him.

This is kinda why I’ve been away, too.

He continues:

world mental health day is a time to share stories. here’s a bit of mine. before i was able to write this down as words, i wrote it as a song that is so so important to me.

That song is incredibly special.

So if I fall it’ll be ’cause I jumped,
and if I jump it’ll be ’cause I’m reaching for the heights.

This song has entered the idolthreat 5, our Spotify playlist of the five most important songs out right now that you need to know about. You can listen to it here.

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