On songs that send us somewhere, or, on the song atlas

It shouldn't surprise me, but it always does: some songs end up "fixed" to a place in my personal history, the record equivalent of Proust's madeline, a cue that sends me somewhere back in my personal geography. Together, I think of these fixed songs as a personal "song atlas." "Sun" by The Hotelier I hear … Continue reading On songs that send us somewhere, or, on the song atlas