After the Earthquake, like songs like Next Of Kin and Already Gone, follow relationships through traumatic experiences.
After the Earthquake is about change and regret. The song presents the motions of a car accident with moments of current feelings of the singer layered in, stemming from an argument or disagreement that was ongoing before the accident happened.
The title comes from the Murakami short story collection (with Earth omitted) about vaguely the same ideas. I love that book and recommend you read it. Just like the song the book is about longing and travel, there are a lot of unspoken intimacies and undefined relationships in that collection of stories, a lot like what Alvvays songs are about.
This song’s final bridge is so, so good, notice the quality of the vocals as everything else disappears. True poetry.
After the Earthquake, like songs like Next Of Kin and Already Gone, follow relationships through traumatic experiences.
After the Earthquake is about change and regret. The song presents the motions of a car accident with moments of current feelings of the singer layered in, stemming from an argument or disagreement that was ongoing before the accident happened.
The title comes from the Murakami short story collection (with Earth omitted) about vaguely the same ideas. I love that book and recommend you read it. Just like the song the book is about longing and travel, there are a lot of unspoken intimacies and undefined relationships in that collection of stories, a lot like what Alvvays songs are about.
This song’s final bridge is so, so good, notice the quality of the vocals as everything else disappears. True poetry.