sailor song in a tunnel on a thunderstorm-y night

Oct. 12, 2025

I really love this song and I'm going to take my minute to gush. Gigi Perez's album "At the Beach, in Every Life" is a stunning exercise in earnestness. It makes me remember being 12 and shipped off to Block Island for a campout. Just myself there with a troop of "scouts." In those days, I'd laugh with others, explore the beachside, and often ache with this feeling of anemoia, a loss for something that I don't know if I've ever really experienced.

I grew up and grew out of the stringent, clean-cut days of scouts. I grew in my understanding of a personal and queer identity, love, and experience. I've lived and loved with vigor and abandon. And I've also grown out of the early angst present in those first rebellious days.

I stand on the precipice of 20. I am more myself than I've ever been, but finding myself with that ache, more now than I ever have.

I love this song, this album, this work of art and honesty because it speaks to this experience for me. It speaks to these questions of religion, faith, intimacy, youth, growth, and the beautiful, terrible things we put ourselves through as songwriters.

So, I hope that you enjoy.

With much love,

Margot